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There were 200 fishes in an aquarium, 99% of which were red. How many red fishes must be removed to make the percentage of red fishes 98%?
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Solve this one! | |
Q. There were 200 fishes in an aquarium, 99% of which were red. | |
How many red fishes must be removed to make | |
the percentage of red fishes 98%? | |
Solution: | |
Initially | |
total: 200, red: 198, percent:99% | |
If we remove 1 red fish - | |
total: 199, red: 197, percent:98.9949749% | |
If we remove 1 more - | |
total: 198, red: 196, percent:98.989898989% | |
so on... | |
If we remove 100 fish - | |
total: 100, red: 98, percent:98% | |
so answer is "remove 100 red fish". | |
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my next question for you is: | |
Q. There were 200 fishes in an aquarium, 99% of which were red. | |
How many red fishes must be removed to make | |
the percentage of red fishes 96%? |
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How many red fishes must be removed to make
the percentage of red fishes 95%?