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A bookstore had 210 copies of a magazine. Yesterday the bookstore sold 4/7of these copies. How many copies were sold yesterday?Write your answer in simplest form.

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Given that the bookstore had 210 copies of a magazine

The fraction of the books sold yesterday is 4/7

Statement of problem: How many books were sold yesterday?

In other to get the number of books sold, we would multiply the fraction of the magazine sold yesterday by the total number of magazines in the bookstore as shown below:


(4)/(7)*210

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