Question

suppose a charity received a donation of $12.8 million, if this represents 33% of the charitys donated funds, what is the total amount of its funds

Answer 1

Explanation:

Restate the problem:

" 29% of x is $28.9 million"

(29/100)x = $28.9 million

[in word (story) problems "of" usually means multiply]

29% may be written as (29/100) or 0.29 as needed by the problem.

x = (100/29)($28.9 million)

x ≅ $99.655 million

x ≅ $100 million [rounded