Question

if 24 compact car represent 5% of the cars made this week. What was the total number of cars made this week?

Answer 1

let

the number of car made this week = x

Therefore,

`\begin{gathered} 5\text{ \% of x = 24} \\ (5)/(100)* x=24 \\ (5x)/(100)=24 \\ \text{cross multiply} \\ 5x=2400 \\ x=(2400)/(5) \\ x=480 \end{gathered}`

Total number of car made this week = 480