A local coffee shop serves 29
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)
To find out how many customers the local coffee shop serves, we can multiply the number of customers served by the chain by the ratio between the local shop and the chain shop.
The local shop serves 29 times as many customers as the chain shop, so we multiply 502 by 29:
502 x 29 = 14,558
Therefore, the local coffee shop serves about 14,558 customers a day (rounded to the nearest whole number).
To find out how many customers the local coffee shop serves in a day, divide the number of customers served by the national coffee chain by 29.
502 / 29 ≈ 17.34
Rounding to the nearest whole number, the local coffee shop serves approximately 17 customers in a day.
To find out how many customers the local coffee shop serves in a day, we can start by setting up a proportion. We know that there is a ratio of 29 customers at the local shop to 1 customer at the national chain shop.
So, we can set up the proportion:
29 (local customers) / 1 (national customers) = x (local customers) / 502 (national customers)
To solve for x (the number of local customers), we can cross-multiply and solve for x:
29 * 502 = 1 * x
14558 = x
Therefore, the local coffee shop serves approximately 14,558 customers in a day.