The bar graph shows the number of ice-cream flavours sold at a shop in a day.
- What percentage of the ice-creams sold was vanilla ice-creams? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
- The cost of each ice-cream was the same. The amount of money collected for cherry ice-creams was $200 more than the amount of money collected for apricot ice-creams. What was the total amount of money collected from the sale of all the ice-creams?
(a)
Total number of ice-creams sold
= 80 + 75 + 40 + 85
= 280
Percentage of the ice-creams sold that was vanilla ice-creams
=
Vanilla ice-creamsTotal ice-creams x 100
=
85280 x 100
≈ 30.4%
(b)
Number of more cherry ice-creams than apricot ice-creams
= 80 - 40
= 40
Cost of each ice-cream
= 200 ÷ 40
= $5
Total amount collected from the sale of all the ice-creams
= 280 x 5
= $1400
Answer(s): (a) 30.4%; (b) $1400