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A bakery sold 48 chocolate cupcakes in a day, which was 12% of the total number of cupcakes sold that day. How many total cupcakes did the bakery sell that day?

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the bakery sold 400 cupcakes that day. 1% of the total cupcakes sold would be 4, so multiplied by 100 to make it 100% would be 400.