Sunny’s Surf Shop sold 160 surfboards this week, which was 320 percent of the number of surfboards sold last week. How many surfboards did Sunny’s Surf Shop sell last week?

Question

16
50
160
512

Answer 1

To find out how many surfboards Sunny's Surf Shop sold last week, we can set up a simple equation based on the information given.

Let \( x \) be the number of surfboards sold last week. According to the problem, 320 percent of \( x \) is equal to 160 surfboards sold this week. We can express this mathematically as:

\[ \frac{320}{100} \times x = 160 \]

This simplifies to:

\[ 3.2x = 160 \]

Next, we can solve for \( x \) by dividing both sides by 3.2:

\[ x = \frac{160}{3.2} = 50 \]

Therefore, Sunny's Surf Shop sold 50 surfboards last week.

So, the answer is 50.