Question

Ariana has atoy car collection. She keeps 14 of the toy cars on her wall, which is 35% of her entire collection. What is the total number of toy cars in Ariana's collection?

Answer 1

40 cars

Explanation:

The total percentage of Ariana's car collection should be = 100%

35% of the collection = 14

1 percent = 14/35

1 percent is therefore 0.4

To get the total number of cars in Ariana's collection, we multiply 100 by 0.4

= 100 x 0.4 = 40

Therefore the total number of cars in her collection is equal to 40 and this is the answer to the question.

Another way to solve this is by cross multiplication

35% = 14

100% = ?

When we cross multiply we have:

(100x14)/35

= 1400/35

= 40

Thank you!