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You have 50 cups. Ten cups are blue,twenty cups are red, and twenty cups are white. What percentage of cups are blue?

User Mourad M
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percent means out of 100

50*2=100, so we can multiply all the other values by 2 to make it equal

there are 10 blue cups,

10*2 is 20. 20% of the cups are blue.

Hope this helps :)

User Christian Schulz
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Answer:

20%

Explanation:

you already know 10/50 is 20%, so what would change? nothing. that's your answer :)

User Perimosh
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