Question

The volleyball team is selling snack bags to raise money for new uniforms. The table shows the percent of the total bags sold for each type of snack bag.



Snack Percent
Cheese Puffs 10
Corn Chips 15
Popcorn 25
Potato Chips 30
Pretzels 20


If they sold 210 bags of pretzels and cheese puffs, how many snack bags did they sell in all?

Answer 1

Pretzels and cheese puffs make up 30% of the sales which means 210 is 30% of the total bags they sold. You could set up a ratio like this where 1 represents 100%:

210/.30 = x/1

If solved out, you find there are 700 bags total and you can check it by finding that 210 is 30% of 700.

Answer 2

Answer: 700

Step-by-step explanation: ok so when I was in school a few hours ago my teacher checked my answer and I was right its 700 here is how :)

cheese puff: 10

pretzels:20

10+20=30%

put 210 as the numerator, you don’t know the denominator so let’s find out.

30 x?      210

100x?        ?

210 divided by 30% is 7 so let’s do 100x7. Whatever we do to the numerator we do the same to the denominator. Remeber that.

now we have our answer

30 x 7 =.   210 bags

100 x 7 =.   700

so 700