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30% of the pens in a box are missing their caps. There are 24 pens missing their caps.

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Answer: 80

Explanation:

1, 30/24= 1.25 1.25 is the unit rate percentage of a pen

2, 100/1.25 is 80 pens

3, checking our work... we know we have 80 pens so 80 1.25*80= 100%

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