Question

A bookstore had 150 copies of a magazine. Yesterday the bookstore sold 2/5 of these copies. How many copies were sold yesterday

Answer 1

Hi

Explanation:

so the question is asking what is 2/5 of 150

if 150 is able to evenly be split up into 5 even parts we can the add two of those parts to get our answer.

does 150 split up into 5 even parts??

hmmm you probably are thinking, 15 does divide by 5 evenly into 3 parts, so we now know that 150 also splits up into 5 even parts of 30 :)

2 time 30 = 60

so there is how to figure out the answer and , the answer 60 :)

Answer 2

60 because 2/5 = x/150. 300 = 5x. 300/5 = 60