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To celebrate the first day of school, Roxanne brought in a tray of caramel brownies and walnut brownies. The tray had a total of 20 brownies, of which 90% were caramel. How many caramel brownies did Roxanne bring?

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Te question tells us that 90% of the brownies are caramel, we set this up as .90 and of course the 20 brownies

Our equation: 20 x .90

Using mental math or plug-in ig this into a calculator we know that the answer is

18 caramel brownies
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