Question

Kelly's Cafe offers two kinds of espresso: single-shot and double-shot. Yesterday afternoon, the cafe sold 4 single-shot espressos and 6 double-shot espressos. What percentage of the espressos sold were single-shot?

Answer 1

40% of espresso was single-shot.

Explanation:

To make a percentage, you need to think of a fraction first. The denominator is always 100 in a percent. If my answer is 40%, the fraction would be 40/100. If there was 6 double shots and 4 single shots, those two together would make 10. 10 x 10 is 100. So really, you just have to multiply 4 by 10 to get the percentage.

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