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Your friend used the proportion 25/100 = 50/? to find 25% of 50 and says that the answer is 200. Explain why your friend is incorrect and find the correct answer.

Your friend used the proportion 25/100 = 50/? to find 25% of 50 and says that the answer is 200. Explain why your friend is incorrect and find the correct answer.
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Your friend used the proportion 25/100 = 50/? to find 25% of 50 and says that the answer is 200. Explain why your friend is incorrect and find the correct answer.

User Bleenders
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The set-up 25/100= 50/? is incorrect.

The correct set-up should be ?/50= 25/100.

?= 50* (25/100)= 12.5.

The correct answer is 12.5~

User Pavel Bely
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