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At the craft store, Winston boughta bag of orange and red marbles.He received 40 marbles in all. 36of the marbles were orange. Whatpercentage of the marbles wereorange? Write your answer usinga % sign.

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In this case, we'll have to carry out several steps to find the solution.

Step 01:

Data:

total marbles = 40

orange marbles = 36

% orange marbles = ?

Step 02:

[tex]\text{ \% orange marbles }\frac{\text{oranges marbles }}{\text{total marbles }}\cdot100\text{ \%}[/tex]

% oranges marbles = (36 / 40) * 100 %

= 90%

The answer is:

The percentage of oranges marbles is 90%.

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