Abakery used 25% more butter this month than last month if the bakery use 240 kg of butter last month how much butter did he use this month

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "x" the amount of butter (in kilograms) that the bakery used this month.

You need to divide the percentage by 100 in order to write it in decimal form. This is:

According to the data given in the exercise, the total amount of butter they used last month is 240 kilograms.

Since 25% more butter was used this month than last month, you can write the folllowing equation:

Evaluating, you get that the value of "x" is:

Therefore, the bakery used 300 kilograms of butter this month.

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