2010 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15
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A jar contains different colors of gumdrops. are blue, are brown, are red, are yellow, and other gumdrops are green. If half of the blue gumdrops are replaced with brown gumdrops, how many gumdrops will be brown?
Solution
We do to find the percent of gumdrops that are green. We find that of the gumdrops are green. That means there are gumdrops. If we replace half of the blue gumdrops with brown gumdrops, then of the jar's gumdrops are brown.
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