Question

Kathleen had a bag of candy-coated chocolates. Of the 55 candies in the bag, 20% were red, 30% were orange, 30% were green, and 20% were blue. Of the blue ones, 10% had a damaged candy coating. Approximately how many of the blue ones had a damaged candy coating?

A. 6
B. 1
C. 11
D. 17

Answer 1

Since there are 55 candies in the bag, and there are 20% of blue candies, it would look like this:

55 x 0.20 = 11

Now that we have 11, you multiply it by the damage coating, so

11 x 0.10 = 1.1