SOLUTION: Karen works at an appliance store. She recently sold 99 appliances, 22 of which were clothes dryers. Of the next 81 appliances Karen sells, how many should she expect to be clothes

Question 1021707: Karen works at an appliance store. She recently sold 99 appliances, 22 of which were clothes dryers. Of the next 81 appliances Karen sells, how many should she expect to be clothes dryers, given the past data?
Answer by Cromlix(4381) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi there,
Karen sold 99 appliances, 22 of them
were clothes dryers.
So 22/99 x 100 = percentage of dryers
= 22.22%
Based on this.
22.22% of the 81 appliances
= 18 clothes dryers.
hope this helps :-)
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