SOLUTION: Ben, Ken and Liem combined their savings to purchase the complete set of play station 2. Ben's contribution of $68 represents 35% of the total cost of the PS2.
a)find the cost of
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Question 363787: Ben, Ken and Liem combined their savings to purchase the complete set of play station 2. Ben's contribution of $68 represents 35% of the total cost of the PS2.
a)find the cost of the complete set.
b)Ken contribution 27% of the total cost. How much is his contribution? Answer by amoresroy(361) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 100% represents the total cost of the PS2.
Since $68 represents 35% of the total cost of the PS2, we divide 100% by 35%.
Disregard the % sign first.
So 100/35 = 2.857
Now we mulitply this to $68
And we now get $194.285 or simply $194.29.
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To find Ken's contribution which is 27% of the total cost, we get the 27% of $194.29.
194.29*(27% or 0.27) = 52.458 or $52.46
