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What percentage of muscle weight would you have if 60 pounds out of 140 pounds is muscle weight?

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What percentage of muscle weight would you have if 60 pounds out of 140 pounds is muscle weight?
all you have to do is divide the muscle weight by the total weight which is...60/140=
ANSWER: about 42.86%
User Nikita Tkachenko
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Percent literally means per one hundred...

p/100=60/140 multiply both sides by 100

p=6000/140

p=300/7 %

p≈42.86% (to nearest hundredth of a percent)
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