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Roman has 2 red pencils in his backpack. If this is 25% of the total number of pencils , how many pencils are in his backpack? explain.

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2 over 25%
4 over 50%
6 over 75%
8 over 100%
Simply use fractions and add 25% for every 2 pencils he has until you reach 100%
8 pencils are in Roman's backpack.
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