Question

Question: Angelas Ice Cream shop sold 235 scoops of marshmallow ice cream yesterday, and they sold 265 scoops of all the other flavors combined. What percentage of the ice cream they sold yesterday was marshmallow ice cream?

Answer 1

47% of ice cream sold yesterday was marshmallow ice cream

Here, we want to get the percentage of the ice cream sold was marshmallow

From the question, 235 scoops were marshmallow, while 265 was all others combined

The total number of scoops sold is thus;

`235\text{ + 265 = 500}`

So, to find the percentage that was marsjmallow, we simply divide the number of marshmallow by the total and multiply by 100%

Mathematically, we have this as;

`(235)/(500)*\text{ 100 \% = 47 \%}`