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mr alvarez tells his students that next math test has 50 questions. he also says 20% will be word problems. the students want to know how may word problems will be in the test

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The answer will be 10
User Jeffrey Hantin
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20% is 0.20

If 20% of 50 questions are word problems,

Then 0.20 * 50 questions are word problems.

0.20 * 50 = 10

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