A bakery sold 100 mocha cupcakes in a day, which was 20% of the total number of cupcakes sold that day. How many total cupcakes did the bakery sell that day?

500

Step-by-step explanation:

percentage is the quantitative way to express number of things out of 100 things.

For example : 20% of bananas are ripe.

it means that if there are 100 apples, 20 are ripe.

Let the total number of cupcakes sold that day be X

20% of total number of cupcakes sold = 20% of X = (20/100) * X __1

It is given that 20% of total number of cupcakes sold is equal to 100

Thus the equation 1 should be equal to 100.

Writing it mathematically we have

(20/100) * X = 100

=> 0.2X = 100

=> X = 100/0.2 = 500

500 cupcakes did the bakery sell that day.