Question

Bob's gift shop sold a record number of cards for Mother's Day. One salesman sold 36 cards, which was 20% of the cards sold for Mother's Day. How many cards were sold for Mother's Day? Multiply/scale up to solve. cards percent 36 20 100

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:36=20%=0.2

y/s=y/s

36=y/s

20=y/s

100=y/s

Answer 2

180 cards

Explanation:

If one sales person sold 36 cards, which was 20% of the total cards sold, then the total number of cards sold for Mother's Day was 36 / 0.20 = <<36/0.20=180>>180 cards.

Thus, a record number of 180 cards were sold for Mother's Day at Bob's gift shop.