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During the first quarter last year, this particular grocery store was
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The following pie chart shows the breakdown of revenues for a particular grocery store over the first quarter of last year. The bar chart shows the detail of breakdown for frozen foods.
During the first quarter last year, this particular grocery store was finishing its construction of an expanded bakery facility, which, when opened at the beginning the second quarter, will offer dozens of new cakes and pies, a whole new line of pastries, and several flavors of gourmet coffee. In the first quarter, bakery sales represented 6% of total profits. Assume that in the second quarter, the bakery sales triple, and all other sale stay the same. Bakery would then account for what percentage of total sales in the second quarter?
(A) 8.7%
(B) 12%
(C) 16.1%
(D) 18%
(E) 25.3%
During the first quarter last year, this particular grocery store was finishing its construction of an expanded bakery facility, which, when opened at the beginning the second quarter, will offer dozens of new cakes and pies, a whole new line of pastries, and several flavors of gourmet coffee. In the first quarter, bakery sales represented 6% of total profits. Assume that in the second quarter, the bakery sales triple, and all other sale stay the same. Bakery would then account for what percentage of total sales in the second quarter?
(A) 8.7%
(B) 12%
(C) 16.1%
(D) 18%
(E) 25.3%
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10 Feb 2023, 12:50
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This is a tricky question because there’s a tempting wrong answer. The bakery accounts for 6% of the total sales in first quarter, so if you triple that, it’s 18%, right? Not quite! The new amount would be 18% of the total sales in the first quarter, but we want to know what percent it would be of the total sales in the second quarter. That’s a new total because, even though everything else stayed the same, bakery sales increased. We don’t need to consider the actual numbers; we can just work with the percents. Bakery sales triple from 6% to 18%—that’s the new “part.” Since the bakery goes up 12% from 6% to 18%, and all other sales stay the same, the new total is 112%—that’s the new “whole.”
18/112=16.07
C is the answer
This is a tricky question because there’s a tempting wrong answer. The bakery accounts for 6% of the total sales in first quarter, so if you triple that, it’s 18%, right? Not quite! The new amount would be 18% of the total sales in the first quarter, but we want to know what percent it would be of the total sales in the second quarter. That’s a new total because, even though everything else stayed the same, bakery sales increased. We don’t need to consider the actual numbers; we can just work with the percents. Bakery sales triple from 6% to 18%—that’s the new “part.” Since the bakery goes up 12% from 6% to 18%, and all other sales stay the same, the new total is 112%—that’s the new “whole.”
18/112=16.07
C is the answer
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