Question

A bakery had 250 pounds of flour. On monday 120 pounds of the flour was used to make bread. The rest was used on tuesday. What persent was used on tuesday

Answer 1

52%

Explanation:

We are given the following information: The bakery originally had 250 pounds of flour. On Monday, 120 pounds of flour was used. The rest was used on Tuesday.

If we simply subtract 120 from 250, we will get the first part of our answer.

`250 -120=130`

Now, we need to find the percent used on Tuesday. To do that, we can divide 130 by 250 as shown below.

`x=(130)/(250)`

`x= .52`

The last step is to change .52 into its percent form. We can do that by multiplying .52 by 100.

`.52(100) = 52`

The percent of flour used on Tuesday was 52%.