Question

A gumball machine contains 232323 green gumballs, 525252 red gumballs, 343434 blue gumballs, 616161 yellow gumballs, and 303030 pink gumballs. What percentage of the gumballs are red?.

Answer 1

%26

Explanation:

We can set up a proportion to find out what percentage of the gumballs are red:

`(525252)/(232323+525252+343434+616161+303030) =(x)/(100)`

`(525252)/(2020200) =(x)/(100)`

`(525252)(100)=2020200(x)`

`((525252)(100))/(2020200) =x`

`26=x`

Since we set up x as a fraction of 100 when writing the proportion we can say that the percentage of red gumballs is %26.