Question

A bowl contains equal numbers of red, orange, green, blue, and yellow candies. Kaz eats all of the green candies and half of the orange ones. Next, he eats half of the remaining pieces of each color. Finally, he eats red and yellow candies in equal proportions until the total number of remaining candies of all colors equals 15% of the original number. What percent of the red candies remain

Answer 1

Answer: 0%

Explanation:

There are 5 colors of jelly beans.

Kaz ate all the green beans, so now only 80% of the jelly beans remain.

Kaz ate half of the orange pieces so now only 70% of the jelly beans remain.

Then Kaz ate half of the remaining pieces, so only 35% of the beans remain.

Current numbers: 0% green, 5% orange, 10% red, yellow, blue

Then he eats red and yellow candies in equal proportions until only 15% of the beans remain. This means that he ate 20% worth of red and yellow beans. This means that he ate all of the red and yellow beans.

Thus, there are 0% red beans left.