Question

Maria spends $22 dollars on lottery tickets every week. shen also spends $133 per month on food. On an (annual) basis ,the money spent on lottery tickets is what percent of the money spent to buy food?

Answer 1

Maria spends $22 on lottery tickets every week and $133 every month on food yearly

This means that in a year

there are 52 weeks and she spends 22 x 52 = $1,144 on Lottery tickets

and there are 12 months in a year, so she spends 133 x 12 = $1,596 on food

The money spent to buy lottery tickets in relation to the money spent on food yearly in percentage is

`\begin{gathered} (1144)/(1596)*100 \\ =71.68\text{ percent approximately} \end{gathered}`