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The contents of a certain box consist of 14 apples and 23 oranges. how many oranges must be removed from the box so that 70 percent of the pieces of fruit in the box will be apples?
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The contents of a certain box consist of 14 apples and 23 oranges. how many oranges must be removed from the box so that 70 percent of the pieces of fruit in the box will be apples?

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the answer is 17 to get 14 as 70%
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