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A candy bowl has 50 pieces of candy. Gumballs make up 20% of the

candy bowl. How many pieces of candy are gumballs?

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Answer:

10 gumballs

Explanation:

Since gumballs are 20 percent of 50 pieces(or 1/5), we divide 50 by 1/5.

We then get ten as our answer.

User Rune Kaagaard
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