2020 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15
Suppose of
equals
of
What percentage of
is
Solution 1
Multiply by to get
. The
here can be converted to
. Therefore,
is the answer.
Solution 2
Letting , our equation becomes
. Clearly,
is
of
and the answer is
.
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