timmy just hired a new employee to work in your bakeshop. In one hour the employee burned 55 chocolate chip cookies. if this represented 15% of the days production, how many cookies did you plan on producing that day?

2500

Explanation:

You know that the new employee burned

625

chocolate chips in one hour and that this many chocolate chips represented

25

%

of that day's production.

As you know, percentages are used to express fractions that have

100

as their denominator. In this case, you can say that

25

%

=

25

100

This means that for every

100

chocolate chips baked that day,

25

were burned by the new employee. You can simplify this ratio to get

25

100

=

1

4

→

one chip burned for every four chips baked