three friends are sharing 36 terry states that he wants 25% of the cookies. Gary wants 1/2 of the cookies and terry wants 0.75 of the cookies how many cookies does each person get? can they each get what they want?
No !
Let s look how much they want:
\(36\times0.25+36\times0.5+36\times0.75=54\)
Or 36 is 100% so let s look how many percent they want:
1/2 is 50%
0.75 is 75%
\(25\%+50\%+75\%=150\%\)
