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A bag of jelly beans contains 20 blue jelly beans, 52 yellow jelly beans, 34 green jelly beans, 71 orange jelly beans, and 23 red jelly beans. What percentage of the jelly beans are yellow?

User SeedyROM
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Answer:

26% of the jelly beans are yellow

Explanation:

To find this we add up all the jelly beans which is 200 jelly beans

Then we divide it by the number of yellow jelly beans which is 52/200

which then equals .26. In a percentage that is 26%

User Szeiger
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Answer: 26%

Explanation:

20+52+34+71+23= 200

52/200 = 26/100

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