SOLUTION: In a bag containing 143 M&M candies, there are 52 brown, 39 orange, 20 yellow, and 17 red candies. The rest if the M&M 's in the bag are green. What percent are green? Need w

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Question 954813: In a bag containing 143 M&M candies, there are 52 brown, 39 orange, 20 yellow, and 17 red candies. The rest if the M&M 's in the bag are green. What percent are green?
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Answer by macston(5194)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
52+39+20+17=128 There are 128 of other colors.
143-128=15 There are 15 green in the bag.
15/143(100%)=10.5%
ANSWER: There are 10.5% green M&Ms in the bag.

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