Question

Enrique and Yolanda collected 500 pieces of candy on Halloween. They gave half of their candy to charity. Yolanda took 180 pieces of the candy and Enrique took the rest. Enrique told his mother he got 64% of the candy. What did Enrique do wrong in calculating his percentage?

He forgot how many pieces they started with.


He didn't account for the candy that was given away.


He counted Yolanda's candy as his own.


He multiplied incorrectly.

Answer 1

The answer would be C. (He counted Yolanda's candy as his own).

This is found by multiplying 500 (starting number of candy) and .64 (percentage divided by a hundred). Thjs would guve you 320, which you would then subtract from the starting number of candy (500) to get 180. 180 is Yolanda's number of candy, which gives you the answer.