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

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asked Feb 21, 2021 80.3k views

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Rajeev N B · Answer 1 · 2021-02-25T02:22:23+0000

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%