Animals

MsStacey

New member
Joined
Oct 19, 2018
Messages
1
Theo had a total of 600 rabbits and ferrets. 60% of the animals were ferrets. After he sold 200 animals, the percentage of ferrets reduced to 45%.

How many rabbits did he sell?

I am not sure if the answer is 110 (solved as a ratio) or 20? and if so why?
 
Theo had a total of 600 rabbits and ferrets. 60% of the animals were ferrets. After he sold 200 animals, the percentage of ferrets reduced to 45%.

How many rabbits did he sell?

I am not sure if the answer is 110 (solved as a ratio) or 20? and if so why?
Please share your work with us - how did you get those answers?
 
Theo had a total of 600 rabbits and ferrets. 60% of the animals were ferrets. After he sold 200 animals, the percentage of ferrets reduced to 45%.

How many rabbits did he sell?

I am not sure if the answer is 110 (solved as a ratio) or 20? and if so why?
Hi. Please read

https://www.freemathhelp.com/forum/threads/112086-Guidelines-Summary?p=436773#post436773

It is very hard to give you a useful answer if we do not know what you already know. The straight-forward way to answer this is with algebra, but that will not help you if you do not have a clue about algebra.
 
Theo had a total of 600 rabbits and ferrets. 60% of the animals were ferrets. After he sold 200 animals, the percentage of ferrets reduced to 45%.

How many rabbits did he sell?

I am not sure if the answer is 110 (solved as a ratio) or 20? and if so why?

This can be solved by basic arithmetic; I, too, am waiting to see why you think one of these is the answer, and why you are not sure. But one thing you can do is to check your answer.

Let's check whether 110 works. There were 600 animals, of which 60% of 600 = 360 were ferrets, and 600 - 360 = 240 were rabbits.

He sold 200 animals, so now there are 600 - 200 = 400.

Suppose he sold 110 rabbits; then he sold 200 - 110 = 90 ferrets. So he has 360 - 90 = 270 ferrets. What percentage is this? 270/400 = 0.675, which is 67.5%, not 45%.

Now check 20. If that also fails, try solving again, perhaps using ideas you've learned from the checking. (Solving is just checking in reverse, for this kind of problem.)
 
Top