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Question

Walmart has a parking lot that will hold 1000 vehicles. 2/5 of the parking lot spaces are for cars. When you went to buy your T.V, there were 200 cars and some trucks in the parking lot. The parking lot was 3/4 full. How many trucks were in the parking lot?

Answer 1

if the parking lot was 3/4 full, that means there were 3/4 of 1000 vehicles in the parking lot when you went to buy your TV.

 

3/4 of 1000 is equal to (3 X 1000)/ 4 = 750.

if 200 out of 750 vehicles were cars, the remaining 550 vehicles were trucks.

Answer 2

If the parking lot will hold 1000 vehicles and it is 3/4 full, then you would multiply 1000 X 3/4 = Total number of vehicles in the parking lot.

 

The question is simply asking how many trucks were there, so once you know the total number of vehicles you would subtract the number of cars from the total, leaving you with the total number of trucks.

 

total number of vehicles - cars(200) = total number of trucks

 

The information about 2/5 of the parking lot spaces are for cars in unnecessary to answer this question because it is not asking you for the fraction of spaces the trucks/cars are taking up.