Question

Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store but 13 percent of all the shipped plates arrive broken. In the last shipment 117 arrive broken which equation can be used to find the total number of plates shipped

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

13 ?

------ X ------

100 117

13 X 117 = 1,521

1,521 / 100 = 15.21

Answer 2

Answer:

900 plates

Step-by-step explanation:

Number of plates- p

Broken plates- b=117

Percentage of broken plates- k=13%

b=pk => p=b/k

p=b/0.13=117/0.13=900