Question

You are responsible for mailing 80,000 letters. You must mail 25% of the total letters over the next five days. If you plan to mail 1/5 of this amount each day, what is the total amount that you plan to mail each day?

Answer 1

Given - Amount of letters to be mailed - 80,000.

Mail to be sent over next five days - 25%

Mail sent each day - 1/5 of calculated amount.

Find - Number of mails to be sent each day.

Solution - First of all, 25% of all mails have to be sent over next five days. Thus, the number of mails to be over next five days - 25/100*(80,000)

The number of mails to be over next five days - 20,000.

Now, 1/5 mails of 20,000 are sent each day.

Therefore, number of mails planned to send each day - 1/5*(20,000)

Number of mails planned to send each day - 4,000.

Hence, total amount planned to mail each day is 4,000.