A local coffee shop serves 2/9
as many customers as a shop run by a national coffee chain. The shop run by the chain serves 502 customers a day. About how many customers does the local shop serve in a day (round to the nearest whole number)?
Let x be the number of customers served by the local coffee shop.
We know that x = 2/9 * 502
Multiplying this out, we get x = 1004 / 9
To round to the nearest whole number, we can add 0.5 and then round down.
So x is approximately 111.
To find out how many customers the local coffee shop serves in a day, we need to calculate 2/9 of the customers served by the national coffee chain.
Step 1: Multiply the number of customers served by the national coffee chain by 2/9.
2/9 * 502 = 111.33
Step 2: Round the result to the nearest whole number.
Rounding 111.33 to the nearest whole number gives us 111.
Therefore, the local coffee shop serves about 111 customers in a day.
To find out how many customers the local coffee shop serves in a day, we can first determine the proportion of customers it serves compared to the national coffee chain.
The national coffee chain serves 502 customers a day. Let's call the number of customers served by the local coffee shop 'x'. According to the given information, the local coffee shop serves 2/9 as many customers as the national chain.
To find 'x', we can set up a proportion:
(x / 502) = (2/9)
We can multiply both sides of the equation by 502 to isolate 'x':
x = (2/9) * 502
Now, let's calculate that:
x = (2/9) * 502
x ≈ 111.56
Rounding to the nearest whole number, the local coffee shop serves about 112 customers in a day.