Some of the shirt order for a department store arrive damaged. If the order was for 500 shirts and 120 of the shirts are damaged, what percent of the shirts were damaged?

ITS 24%

Step-by-step explanation:

To rephrase this problem: 120 is what percent of 500.

Let's call the percent we are looking for  

p

. Then we can say:

p

of 500 = 120 or

p × 500 = 120

Solving for  

p  

while keeping the equation balanced gives:

p × 500

500 = 120

500  p = 0.24  or

24 %

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