Glass plates are packaged and shipped to a retail store but 13 percent of all the shipped plates arrive broken in the last shipment 117 arrive broken how many plates were shipped in total

Answer 1

To find the total number of glass plates shipped, we can use the information that 13% of the plates arrived broken and that 117 plates were broken.

Let \( x \) be the total number of plates shipped. According to the problem, 13% of \( x \) equals 117. We can express this mathematically as:

\[ 0.13x = 117 \]

To solve for \( x \), divide both sides by 0.13:

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

Now, calculating that:

\[ x = 900 \]

Therefore, the total number of plates shipped is 900.