Cheryl Bryant completed designing 22 custom cakes on her 18-cake contract as an employee of Frontier Wedding Planners. There is a bonus earned if the individual exceeds 145 percent of her piece contract. Required: How many cakes must Cheryl complete in the remainder of the week to receive the bonus? (Round up your intermediate unit to the nearest whole unit.)

Cheryl must complete 5 more cakes in the remainder of the week to receive the bonus.

Step-by-step explanation:

Percentages

We must recall that percentages are always calculated respect to some fixed reference as part of 100 units. For example, 10 out of 40 is the same as 1 out of 4, 1 respect to 4 or 0.25 per unit, or 25 percent.

Cheryl Bryant is required to design 18 cakes per week and she has already completed designing 22 custom cakes. To receive the bonus if she completes 145% of the required goal, that it 145% of 18 =26.1. Rounding up she must design 27 cakes to be eligible for the bonus. Since she has already completed 22, she needs to complete 27-22=5 more cakes to receive the bonus.