The Music Department is a department store sold 12 jazz CD's last month. Jazz sales during that month made up 2% of the music departments total sales. Determine the number of CD's that the store sold during that month?

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Shannon

24 July, 12:24

The Music Department is a department store sold 12 jazz CD's last month. Jazz sales during that month made up 2% of the music departments total sales. Determine the number of CD's that the store sold during that month?

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Jerome Hogan · Answer 1

The answer is 38 CD's. Since the percent is of 100, 2% of 100 would be 50. Then, twelve subtracted from 50 determined that 38 CD's were sold during last month.