Question

A store stocked 150 cans of popcorn for a win sale that weekend 72 cans sold what percent of the cans of popcorn stocked were sold that weekend

Answer 1

72/150= 0.48 = 48%

Answer 2

48% of cans were sold

Explanation:

We must calculate the percentage of cans of popcorn sold during the weekend.

To calculate the percentage we use the following equation

`\%Sold =(X_s)/(Xt)*100\%`

Where:

`X_s` is the amount of cans sold

`X_t` is the total amount of cans (those that were sold and those that were not sold)

In this case:

`X_s=72` and
`X_t=150`

Then:

`\%Sold =(72)/(150)*100\%`

`\%Sold =48\%`