Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store, but 13% of all the shipped plates arrive broken. In the last shipment, 117 arrive broken. How many plates were shipped in total?(1 point) plates NOTE: Type your numerical answer into the box for the question to be scored correctly

Answer 1

Let \( x \) be the total number of plates shipped. According to the problem, 13% of the plates arrive broken, which can be expressed mathematically as:

\[ 0.13x = 117 \]

To find the total number of plates shipped, we can solve for \( x \):

\[ x = \frac{117}{0.13} \]

Calculating that:

\[ x = 117 \div 0.13 \approx 900 \]

Thus, the total number of plates shipped is \( \boxed{900} \).