Question

At Macy’s, 1/9 of all sales were for cash. If cash sales were $59,000, what were the total sales?

Answer 1

`\text{Given the cash sales to be \$59,000}`
`(1)/(9)\text{ of all sales were for cash}`

Let the total sales be X.

This implies:

`\begin{gathered} (1)/(9)\text{ }*\text{ X=59,000} \\ X=59,000*9 \\ X=\text{ \$531,000} \end{gathered}`

Hence, the total sales was $531,000