timmy just hired a new employee to work in your bakeshop. In one hour the employee burned 55 chocolate chip cookies. if this represented 15% of the days production, how many cookies did you plan on producing that day?
2500 Explanation: You know that the new employee burned 625 chocolate chips in one hour and that this many chocolate chips represented 25 % of that day's production. As you know, percentages are used to express fractions that have 100 as their denominator. In this case, you can say that 25 % = 25 100 This means that for every 100 chocolate chips baked that day, 25 were burned by the new employee. You can simplify this ratio to get 25 100 = 1 4 → one chip burned for every four chips baked
