Question

A 4-h club held a canned food drive. On Wednesday they collected 63 cans which was 21% of the total cans collected during the food drive for the table to show a number of cans liked on Thursday and FridayWednesday [21/63Thursday [46/??]Friday [33/??

Answer 1

Let x be the number of cans that are 100% of the total cans collected.

$\begin{gathered} 63\to21\text{percent} \\ x\to100\text{percent} \\ \Leftrightarrow \\ \frac{63}{21}=\frac{x}{100} \\ \Rightarrow x=300 \end{gathered}$

Thus, 300 cans were collected in total.

1) Thursday

Remember that 46%=0.46; then, the 46% of 300 is

$300\cdot0.46=138$

138 cans were collected on Thursday.

2) Friday

33%=0.33, then

$300\cdot0.33=99$

99 cans were collected on Friday.