Alex has a truck. 42% of the miles he drove last month were for work. If Alex drove 588 miles for work, how many miles did he drive last month all together?

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asked May 3, 2020 28.7k views

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Lakshitha Kanchana · Answer 1 · 2020-05-08T14:34:43+0000

Answer:

Alex has driven Total of 1400 miles.

Explanation:

Given:

Miles Driven by Alex = 588 miles

Percentage mile driven by Alex = 42%

Solution:

Let the total miles driven by Alex be 'x'.

And given that 42% of the total miles he drive for work, which is 588 miles.

That means x multiplied with 42% is equal to 588.

So framing the above sentence in equation form, we get;

$x* 42\% =588$

Now we have to remove the percentile.

For this we have to divide 42 by 100, then we get;

x*(42)/(100) = 588

Multiplying by 100 on both side, using Multiplication Property we get;

$x*(42)/(100)* 100 = 588* 100\\\\42x=58800$

Dividing both side by 42 using Division Property we get;

$(42x)/(42)=(58800)/(42)\\\\x= 1400 \ miles$

Hence Alex has driven Total of 1400 miles.