The 14 compact cars sold by a dealer on Monday was 56% of the cars sold that day.
Situation is looking for a percent of compact car that is 56 or part that is 14 compact car out of whole.
Solution:
Given that
14 compact cars sold by a dealer on Monday was 56% of the cars sold that day.
Need to decide whether the following situation is looking for the percent, the part, or the whole.
From given information ,
The part that is 14 compact cars out of all cars are sold on the day.
Also 14 compact car are 56% of the car sold on that day.
So clearly situation is looking for a percent of compact car that is 56 or part that is 14 compact car out of whole.
