An animal shelter recently held an adoption event and found homes for 48 of their shelter animals. If they found home for 80% of the animals during the event, how many animals were in the shelter before the event? [Type your answer as a number.] Pls explain how to do it.
I believe it should be 60 animals were in there before. I just simply took different numbers on my calculator and multiplied by 80% until I got 48. Meaning 80% of 60 is 48. Let me know if this was right.
