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Laura ordered a set of blue and black pencils. she receives 120 pencils, and 59% of them were black. about how many black pencils did laura receive?
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Laura ordered a set of blue and black pencils. she receives 120 pencils, and 59% of them were black. about how many black pencils did laura receive?

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59% of 120 is 70.8. So to make an approximate number of pencils I would round up because it's over .5. I would say about 71 pencils are black.
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