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A new health drink has 150% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for a certain vitamin. The RDA for this vitamin is 20 mg. How many milligrams of the vitamin are in the drink? There are mg of the vitamin
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A new health drink has 150% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for a certain vitamin. The

RDA for this vitamin is 20 mg. How many milligrams of the vitamin are in the drink?
There are mg of the vitamin in the drink.

A new health drink has 150% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for a certain-example-1
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Convert 150% to a decimal by dividing by 100, = 1.5

Multiply 1.5 times the 20 mg = 30 mg in the drink.

150% is one and a half times a value.
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