You have to form a proportion: [tex]\frac{part}{whole}[/tex]
Meals are only 11% for the vacation budget. This means that meals would go over 100% like this:
[tex]\frac{11}{100}[/tex]
You also know that you have $550 for meal (your part) but you want to know what your total vacation budget is(your whole)[tex]\frac{x}{550}[/tex] (x), so you would set it up like this
Now you sent them equal to solve for x:
[tex]\frac{11}{100} = [tex]\frac{550}{x}[/tex]
cross multiply:
11x = 55,000
x = 5,000
This means that your total vacation budget is $5,000
Hope this helped!
