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A box of pens contains 24 red pens and four black pens what percentage of the pens are red
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A box of pens contains 24 red pens and four black pens what percentage of the pens are red

User Mathias Rechtzigel
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24 Red Pens

4 Black Pens

That means there is 28 pens in total. Of those 28 pens, 24 are red.

Our fraction would be 24/28 and then we need to simplify it to 6/7.

6/7 = 85.71%

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