2019 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
Suppose is of . What percent of is ?
Solution 1
Since , that means . We multiply by 3 to get a term, to yield .
is of .
-- eric2020
Solution 2
WLOG, let . Then, we have and . Thus, so is or so the answer is
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