Question

Qthe owner of a boutique decides to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase hats. If 40 percent of the store's customers decide to purchase items, and of those customers 15 percent purchase hats, what percent of the store's customers purchase hats?

Answer 1

Answer:

6%

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the owner of a boutique decides to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase hats. If 40 percent of the store's customers decide to purchase items, and of those customers 15 percent purchase hats, what percent of the store's customers purchase hats?

Let there are 100 customers.

Now given 40% persons wants to purchase the items.

    So 40 persons purchase items.

So 15% purchase hats

So 15/100 = 0.15

So 15% of 40 will be

So 0.15 x 40 = 6

So 6% wants to purchase hats.

OR

Let total number of customers be x

Number of customers who purchased hats will be 15% of 40% of x

            = 15/100 x 40/100 x x

            = 3 x/50

So percentage will be

          3x/50 /x x 100 %

          = 6%

Answer 2

Answer:

short

40/100× 15/100 ×100 =6%