Question

In a certain hardware store, 3% of the lawn mowers needed new labels. If the price per label was 40 and the total cost for new mowers labels was 960, how many lawn mowers are in the hardware store?

Answer 1

let total lawn mowers be 'y'

new lables needed for 3% of total

lawn mowers.

(3%)y

=0.03y

cost of each lable is 40/-

total price for 3% of lawn mowers is

(0.03)y×40=960

y=800