SOLUTION: you have 50 cups. ten cups are blue, twenty cups are red, and twenty cups are white. what percentage of cups are blue?

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Question 1159936: you have 50 cups. ten cups are blue, twenty cups are red, and twenty cups are white. what percentage of cups are blue?
Answer by ikleyn(52847)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    Percentage of blue cups =  = 0.2*100 = 20%.    ANSWER


    To find percentage, you should calculate a ratio of the two values, and then multiply it by 100.

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