Given:
a.) Effie ate 4 peaches.
b.) This represents 50% of the bag of peaches.
To be able to determine the original number of peaches, we will be using the following formula:
[tex]\text{ Original Number = }\frac{Number\text{ of peaches ate}}{\frac{Percentage\text{ Equivalent}}{100}}[/tex]We get,
[tex]\text{ Original Number = }\frac{Number\text{ of peaches ate}}{\frac{Percentage\text{ Equivalent}}{100}}[/tex][tex]\text{ = }\frac{4}{\frac{50}{100}}[/tex][tex]\text{ = }\frac{4}{0.5}[/tex][tex]\text{ Original Number = 8}[/tex]Therefore, the original number of peaches in the bag is 8.
