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If you eat a diet with 2,000 kilocalories and 45 percent of those calories come from protein, about how many grams of protein did you eat

If you eat a diet with 2,000 kilocalories and 45 percent of those calories come from-example-1
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45% of kilocalories


I hope this is correct!!!
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Protein = 45% of total kilocalories

= 45% of 2000

= 900 kCal

Protein provides 4 calories per gram

So Gram of protein = 900รท4 = 225 gram

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