Question

Enrique has found that sales of laptops are 5% of his store’s total sales. Let x represent the store’s sales of laptops in a month. Write an equation that represents the store’s predicted total sales y for that month.

Answer 1

20x = y

Explanation:

the sales of laptops makes 5% of his sales, so you can estimate his total sales of a month if you know his sales of laptops of the same month. This is done by multiplying the amount of sales of laptops that month, x, by 20. You do this because 5% x 20 = 100%.