Question

A man travelled $60$ km by car and $240$ km by train. Find what percent of the total journey did he travel by car and what percent by train?

Answer 1

Distance covered by car $=60$ km
Distance covered by train $=240$ km
$\therefore$ Total journey $=60+240=300$ km

Let $x\%$ of total journey is travelled by car.
Then, $x\%$ of $300=60$

$\Rightarrow \frac{x}{100}\times 300=60$

$\Rightarrow x=\frac{60\times 100}{300}$
$\Rightarrow x=20\%$

Let $y\%$ of total journey is travelled by train.

Then, $y\%$ of $300=240$

$\Rightarrow \frac{y}{100}\times 300=240$

$\Rightarrow y=\frac{240\times 100}{300}$

$\Rightarrow y=80\%$

Hence, $20\%$ distance is travelled by car and $80\%$ distance is travelled by train.