Question

kate has a coin collection she keeps 7 of the coins in a box which is only 5% of her entire collection what is the total number of coins in kates coin collection

Answer 1

140

Explanation:

so where trying to find the unknown total of coins so where gonna call that x

then we will make an equation 5% * x= 7

then to make it easier to solve we will convert 5% to a decimal .05

and finally to find the answer we will divide both sides by .05

this gives us x= 140 which is the answer