Question 1067346: In March, Jane made 18% of a company's deliveries. Jane made 81 deliveries. How many deliveries did the company make that month? Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, MathTherapy:Answer by ikleyn(52932) (Show Source):
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In March, Jane made 18% of a company's deliveries. Jane made 81 deliveries. How many deliveries did the company make that month?
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The condition is equivalent to this equation
0.18x = 81,
where "x" is the number under the question.
The solution is
x = = 450.
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In March, Jane made 18% of a company's deliveries. Jane made 81 deliveries. How many deliveries did the company make that month?
With D being the number of deliveries made that month, we get the following PROPORTION: .
Solve that to get:
