SOLUTION: A. A cake mixture is 45% flour and 18% sugar. How much flower is there in 940 grams of the mixture? B. On Friday 8% of the students in Year 8 at St Skivers school were absent.

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Question 1012393: A. A cake mixture is 45% flour and 18% sugar.
How much flower is there in 940 grams of the mixture?
B. On Friday 8% of the students in Year 8 at St Skivers school were absent.
There are 175 students in year 8 altogether. How many students were absent?
C. When throwing darts, "Larger" Len can hit the bullseye 27% of the time
If Len throws 145 darts, how many times would you expect him to hit the bullseye

Answer by Cromlix(4381)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi there,
A) 45% of 940 grams is flour
45/100 x 940 = 423 grams of flour.
B) 8% of 175 students were absent
8/100 x 175 = 14 students were absent.
C) Len can hit the bullseye 27% of the time
27% of 145 darts
27/100 x 145
= 39.15 times
= 39 times.
Hope this helps :-)

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