SOLUTION: Out of 345 jelly beans in Mrs. Hammer's jelly bean jar, 20% are cotton-candy flavored and 40% are root-beer flavored. A. How many are cotton-candy flavored? B. How many are r

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Question 139729: Out of 345 jelly beans in Mrs. Hammer's jelly bean jar, 20% are cotton-candy flavored and 40% are root-beer flavored.
A. How many are cotton-candy flavored?
B. How many are root-beer flavored?
C. How many other flavors of jelly beans are there?
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A. cotton candy flavored: 345 times .2
B. root beer flavored: 345 times .4 (or 2 times the number of cotton candy flavored ones -- either way, same answer)
C. Add the answers to A and B and subtract from 345.