Question

Mr. Edwards hired a new employee to work in his bakeshop. In one hour, this
employee burned 439 chocolate chip cookies, which represented 25% of all the
cookies the employee burned in that day. How many cookies did the new employee
burn in the course of the day?

Answer 1

Answer:

The new employee  burned 1,972 cookies in the course of the day.

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, given the percentage of cookies burned  = 25%

25% of cookies burned  = 493 cookies

Let us assume the total number of cookies burned in the whole day = m

⇒ 25% of m = 493 cookies

or, $\frac{25}{100}\times m =  493 \\\implies  m = 493 \times \frac{100}{25}   =1,972$

or, m  = 1,972 cookies

Hence, the new employee  burned 1,972 cookies in the course of the day.