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In a corn field, 2 out of 20 pieces of corn were rotten. Based on this information, how many pieces of rotten corn could be expected in a field of 260 pieces of corn?

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260(2/20)

260(1/10)

26

So 26 pieces can be expected to be rotten out of 260 pieces of corn in total.
User Arie Pinto
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if 2 out of 20 pieces of corn werer otten then 13 corns out of 260 is rotten
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