Question

You operate a fresh fruit and vegetable market. For normal shipments, about 9.0% of the peaches are spoiled when they reached your market. You anticipate a busy weekend and would like to have 100 pounds of peaches to sell. To have 100 pounds of peaches and considering the spoilage rate, how many pounds should you order?

Answer 1

110 pounds of peaches should be ordered

Explanation:

Here, we want to calculate the number of pounds of peaches to order.

Let the number of peaches to ordered be x peaches

Now, since 9% is expected to be bad, then the percentage expected to be good will be 91%

Thus;

91% of x = 100

91/100 * x = 100

91x = 100 * 100

x = 10000/91

x = 109.89

Since we cannot have fractional peaches, then x must be 110