Question

For a company picnic, Vijay ordered a box of fresh-baked gingerbread cookies and sugar cookies. He got 70 cookies in all. 28 of the cookies were gingerbread. What percentage of the cookies were gingerbread?

Answer 1

Answer: 40%

Explanation:

There are 70 cookies in total.

The gingerbread cookies number 28.

The percentage that are gingerbread will therefore be:

= Number of gingerbread/ Total number of cookies * 100%

= 28 / 70 * 100%

= 40%