The student council has a canned food drive. They collected a total of 63 cans on Wednesday. This is 21% of the total. How many canned goods were collected in all?
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same thing
.21x = 63
x = 63/.21 = 300
0.21 x 63 = 13.23
But how did u get that? Do the actual math. And so what is the answer? For thursday and friday?
To find out how many canned goods were collected in all, we can use the concept of percentages. We know that 63 cans represents 21% of the total number of cans collected.
Let's assume the total number of canned goods collected is "x".
To calculate this, we can set up a proportion:
21% of x = 63 cans
To solve for x, we need to convert 21% to a decimal by dividing it by 100:
0.21 * x = 63
Now, we can isolate x by dividing both sides of the equation by 0.21:
x = 63 / 0.21
Evaluating this expression gives us:
x = 300
Therefore, a total of 300 canned goods were collected in all.