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Esmerelda bought a bag of jelly beans. There were 242424 green jelly beans, which made up 8\%8%8, percent of all the jelly beans in the bag. How many jelly beans were in the bag?
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Esmerelda bought a bag of jelly beans. There were 242424 green jelly beans, which made up 8\%8%8, percent of all the jelly beans in the bag.

How many jelly beans were in the bag?

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3030300.
If 8% of the beans were green, then there are 3030300 beans in total.
242424/.08=3030300

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