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Enrique and Yolanda collected 500 pieces of candy on Halloween. they gave half of their candy to charity. Yolanda took 180 pieces of the candy and Enrique took the rest . Enrique told his mother he got 64% of the candy what did Enrique do wrong in calculating his parentage.

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500 − 250 = 250 pieces left after donation

Yolanda got 180 pieces....then Enrique got 70 pieces

So he got 70 /250 = 7/25 = 28% of the remaining candy

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