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The lunch choices last Friday were mushroom or pepperoni pizza. The cafeteria made 3030 pizzas in all, 30%30\% of which were mushroom pizzas. How many mushroom pizzas did the cafeteria make?\newline____\_\_\_\_ mushroom pizzas

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Q. The lunch choices last Friday were mushroom or pepperoni pizza. The cafeteria made 3030 pizzas in all, 30%30\% of which were mushroom pizzas. How many mushroom pizzas did the cafeteria make?\newline____\_\_\_\_ mushroom pizzas
  1. Convert to decimal: Step 11: Convert 30%30\% to a decimal.\newline30%=30100=0.3030\% = \frac{30}{100} = 0.30
  2. Calculate mushroom pizzas: Step 22: Calculate the number of mushroom pizzas.\newlineTotal number of pizzas = 3030\newlinePercent as decimal = 0.300.30\newlineNumber of mushroom pizzas = 0.30×300.30 \times 30
  3. Perform multiplication: Step 33: Perform the multiplication to find the number of mushroom pizzas. 0.30×30=90.30 \times 30 = 9

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