30% of your budget is spent on equipment, 16% on transportation, and 54% on fees. If the total budget is $789, how much money was spent on equipment?
A $171.40
B $236.70
C $426.06
D $126.24

Respuesta :

amount=total budget multiple by the rate=30% divide by 100%

Answer

Find out the how much money was spent on equipment .

To prove

Formula

[tex]Percentage = \frac{Part\ value\times 100}{Total\ value}[/tex]

As given

30% of your budget is spent on equipment.

If the total budget is $789 .

Here

Percentage = 30%

Total value = 789

Put in the formula

[tex]30 = \frac{Part\ value\times 100}{789}[/tex]

[tex]Part\ value = \frac{30\times 789}{100}[/tex]

[tex]Part\ value = \frac{23670}{100}[/tex]

Part value = $236.70

Therefore $236.70  money was spent on equipment .

Option (B) is correct.

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