Question

Francisca has 40 paperbacks in her bookcase. This is 32% of the books in the bookcase. How many books are in Francisca's bookcase? Use an equation with a variable. Show your work

Answer 1

The total number of books that are in Francisca's bookcase is 125 books.

Let the total number of books be B.

Given the following data:

Number of paperbacks = 40.

Percentage = 32%.

How to calculate the total number of books.

In this exercise, you're required to determine the total number of books that are in Francisca's bookcase if there she has 40 paperbacks in her bookcase. Thus, we would write a mathematical expression for the word problem.

Translating the word problem into an algebraic expression, we have;

$\frac{32}{100} \times T=40\\\\0.32T=40\\\\T=\frac{40}{0.32}$

T = 125 books.

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