Question

16% of the apples in a basket go bad. If there are 42 good apples in a basket, find the total number of apples in rhe basket.​

Answer 1

Let the total number of apples be .

This implies,

The percentage of good apples be 100%

so, 100-16 = 84%

Let total apples be x

The total number of good apples = 42.

so, 84% of x = 42

so x = 50

The total number of apples in the basket is 50.