Question

A company has 6,435 bars of soap, if the company has sold 20 per cent of its stock, then how many bars of soap did it sell?

• A. 1237
• B. 1257
• C. 1287
• D. 1300

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

1287

Answer 2

The correct option is (C): 1287
Explation: To find out how many bars of soap the company sold, we can calculate 20% of the total stock of soap, which is 6,435 bars.
Calculate 20% of 6,435 :
$\text{Number of bars sold} = \frac{20}{100} \times 6435 = 0.2 \times 6435 = 1287$
So, the company sold 1,287 bars of soap.
The answer is Option C: 1287.