Question

A bakery sells mocha cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes. One day it sold 28 mocha and 52 chocolate . What percent of the cupcakes sold that they were mocha?

Answer 1

35%

1) Gathering the data

bakery

mocha cupcakes =28

chocolate = 52

2) To find the percentage let's add them first and then set a proportion.

52+28= 80

Mocha cupcakes

Cupcakes

80---------------------------- 100%

28---------------------------- x

Cross multiply

80x = 2800 Divide them by 80

x=35

3) So 35% of the sold cupcakes were mocha cupcakes