Question

Ess observed that 60% of the people at a mall on a particular day shopped for clothes. If 2500 people at the mall did not shop for clothes that day, the number of people who shopped for clothes that day was ______. (only put numeric values, no other symbols)

Answer 1

Let's consider that the number of people in the mall in that day was x

"Ess observed that 60% of the people at a mall on a particular day shopped for clothes" means
$0.6x$

AND
"people at the mall did not shop for clothes that day" means 0.4x

So we got the equation:
$0.4x=2500 \\~\\~\\Solve ~for~x\\~\\x= \frac{2500}{0.4}=6250[tex]0.6x=0.6(6250)=3750$ [/tex]

Hence we can calculate the number of the people who shopped for clothes:


So we can conclude that the number of people who shopped for clothes that day was 3750