Carl spent 12.5% of the money in his pocket on dinner. His dinner cost $15.25. How much did he have in his pocket?

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Yazmin Baldwin

1 November, 07:14

Carl spent 12.5% of the money in his pocket on dinner. His dinner cost $15.25. How much did he have in his pocket?

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Kid · Answer 1

If $15.25 is 12.5% of his money you can use 15.25/x=12.5/100 to solve for how much he had total, so 12.5x/100=15.25, which means 12.5X=1525, or x=1525/12.5, which is 122 meaning the answer is just $122.

Layne Huber · Answer 2

So therefor 12.5%=15.25

percent means parts out of 100

12.5%=12.5/100=0.125/1

0.125 of money=15.25

'of' means multiply

0.125 times money=15.25

divide both sides by 0.125

money=122

answe rs $122