Question

if 24 compact car represent 5% of the cars made this week. What was the total number of cars made this week?

Answer 1

let

the number of car made this week = x

Therefore,

$\begin{gathered} 5\text{ \% of x = 24} \\ \frac{5}{100}\times x=24 \\ \frac{5x}{100}=24 \\ \text{cross multiply} \\ 5x=2400 \\ x=\frac{2400}{5} \\ x=480 \end{gathered}$

Total number of car made this week = 480