Percentages/Conversion

Question

A video merchant sold 24 cases of tapes, which was 20% of what he had left. What percent of tapes did he sell?

Answer 1

Greetings! Lets solve this problem shall we!?

If the merchant sold 24 cases of tapes which was 20% of what he or she had left, then 80% of the tapes were still in stock! So the question is how many tapes are still in stock?

If 24 cases of tapes is 20% out of 100%, then 96 cases are in the other stock.

Finally, there are 5 parts of (20%) = 100% so 5(24 cases) = 120 total cases.

Im not sure what you are asking in the question here but I hope this helps!