Esmerelda bought a bag of jelly beans. There were 24 green jelly beans, which made up 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 24 green jelly beans, which made up 8%, percent of all the jelly beans in the bag. How many jelly beans were in the bag?

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There were 300 jellybeans in the bag.

24/300=.08 (which is 8%)

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