Middle School

A restaurant wants to study how well its salads sell. The circle graph shows the sales over the past few days. If 10 of the salads sold were garden salads, how many total salads did the restaurant sell?

The circle graph consists of a circle divided into three parts with labels and sizes as a percent of the circle as follows:
- Garden: 40%
- Caesar: 48%
- Taco: 12%

Answer :

Percentage is a part of a whole. The total number of salads that were sold by the restaurant is 25.

What is Percentage?

A percentage is a way to describe a part of a whole. such as the fraction 1/4 can be described as 0.25 which is equal to 25%.

Given to us

Garden 40%

Caesar 48%

Taco 12%

Let the number of salads sold by the restaurant is N.

We know that percentage is a part of a whole. And given to us that the number of garden salads sold was 10 which is equal to 40% of the salads sold. therefore,

Percentage of garden salads sold were,

[tex]40\%\ \ of\ \ N = 10\\\\40\% \times N=10\\\\0.40 \times N = 10\\\\N = 25[/tex]

Hence, the total number of salads that were sold by the restaurant is 25.

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