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Solve this problem using the part-to-whole method

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Sofia went to the bakery and bought 12 cupcakes. Out of the 12 cupcakes, she has 3 chocolate flavored. What is the percentage of chocolate cupcakes?

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User Paynd
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This would be 25%.

Reason:

If there are 12 total cupcakes and 3 out of them are chocolate. Then 3/12 cupcakes are chocolate. Simply this fraction to 1/4 -> 1/4 = 25% = .25 etc
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