Question

students sell 80% of the books at a book sale.they sell 48 books in all. how manybooks are at the book sale?

Answer 1

To solve this problem, let's use the given information:
* 80% of the books were sold
* 48 books were sold

Let x be the total number of books at the book sale. Then:
0.8x = 48
x = 48/0.8
x = 60

Therefore, there were 60 books at the book sale initially.