Question

A pie shop bakes a certain amount of pies each week. 150 of those pies are apple pies. These apple pies makes up 40 percent of the total pies. How many pies does the shop make each week?

Answer 1

The number of apple pies made each week is 375

Here, we want to know the total number of pies made per week

Let the total number of pies be p

From the question, 40% of p is 150

Thus, we have it that;

`\begin{gathered} 40\text{ \% of p = 150 } \\ (40)/(100)*\text{ p = 150} \\ 40p\text{ = 100}*150 \\ \\ p\text{ = }(100*150)/(40) \\ p\text{ = 375} \end{gathered}`