Question

a supermarket sells 4 brands of detergents a,b,c and d on a particular day 15% of the total boxes sold was brand a and 45% was brand c.Find the ratio of number of boxes of brand a sold to the number of boxes sold. Give your answser in a fraction Search Results Web results

Answer 1

The ratio of number of boxes of brand a sold to the number of boxes sold is 3/20

Explanation:

A supermarket sells 4 brands of detergents a, b, c, d.

On this particular day, 15% of the total boxes sold was brand a and 45% was brand c.

ratio of number of boxes of brand a sold to the number of boxes sold = ?

15% of the boxes sold is box a

Total number of boxes sold is 100%,

therefore,

ratio of box a sold to the whole boxes sold will be

15/100 = 3/20 in fraction