Question

A bakery sells vanilla cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes. It sold 267 vanilla cupcakes in a day. 8% of the cupcakes sold that day were chocolate. How many total cupcakes did the bakery sell that day?

Answer 1

Let x be the total number of cupcakes sold that day.

The number of chocolate cupcakes sold is 8% of x, which is 0.08x.

Since 267 vanilla cupcakes were sold, x - 267 cupcakes were chocolate cupcakes.

Therefore, 0.08x = x - 267
0.08x - x = -267
-0.92x = -267
x = -267 / -0.92
x = 290.22

The bakery sold a total of 290 cupcakes that day.