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24 green jelly beans, which made up of 8, percent of all the jelly beans in the bag.

How many jelly beans were in the bag?

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If you would like to know how many jelly beans were in the bag, you can calculate this using the following steps:

8% of all the jelly beans is 24
8% * x = 24
8/100 * x = 24 /*100/8
x = 24 * 100 / 8
x = 300 jelly beans

The correct result would be 300 jelly beans.
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