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another:
What percentage of 75 is 15?
Cross multiply:
15( 100) = ( 75) (x)
1 ,50 0 = 75x
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34. If 5% of a number is 20, what would 50 % of that
number be?
a. 250
b. 100
c. 200
d. 400
e. 50 0
35...
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16. 55 .5. Since 80% of 35 = .80 × 35 = 28 and 25% of 28
= . 25 × 28 = 7, then 35 of the 63 boys and girls
have been club members for more than two
years. Since
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31. d. 52 % is the same as .52 (drop the % sign and
move the decimal point two places to the
left);
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; 52 × 100 = .52 ; And...