Question

Soft Shoes, a shoe store, sold $1,528 of blue slippers last week. If that amount is 11.5% of their total sales, what were their total sales? (Round to the nearest dollar)

Answer 1

$13,287

Explanation:

As per question, Soft Shoes has sold blue slippers last week for $1,528 which is 11.5% of total sales, In order to find their total sales let us assume that their total sales is 'y'. Now in the form of an equation we write the above statement as:

11.5% of y = $1,528

or

`(11.5)/(100)y` = $1,528

or

0.115 y = $1,528

Dividing the equation by 0.115, we get:

y =
`(1528)/(0.115)`

y = $13,286.96

Rounding to the nearest dollar we get:

y = $13,287

Hence their Total Sales will be $13,287.