The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the
percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. Upon
completing his survey, he noticed that 60% of the people
that entered his store purchased an item. Of those
customers, 15 percent purchased wood glue. What percent of
the people that entered the store purchased wood glue?

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / satheesh kumar muvvala

9 percent

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / rajhans

9 is right answer,,,

san made a mistake its mentioned 15% not 40%

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / sudha baskaran

assume there are 100 customers
out of 100 customers 60 buy something
now out of 60 15% buy wood glue
so 15% is 9 in 60
so the Answer is 9

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / manoj

The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the
percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. Upon
completing his survey, he noticed that 60% of the people
that entered his store purchased an item. Of those
customers, 15 percent purchased wood glue. What percent of
the people that entered the store purchased wood glue?

Is This Answer Correct ?    8 Yes 2 No

The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / prakash

can u explain me the above problem wit solution

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / sasi

assume there are 100 customers
out of 100 customers 60 buy something
now out of 60 15 buy wood glue
so 15 is 25% in 60
so ans is 25%

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The owner of a hobby store needed to calculate the percentage of customers who purchase wood glue. ..

Answer / san

Ans is 24 percent

Let no of people be 100
no of people buy the product is 60
out of which 40% of people buyed the glue is 24
So no of people who entered the store purchased wood glue
is 24%

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