A gumball machine contains 232323 green gumballs, 525252 red gumballs, 343434 blue gumballs, 616161 yellow gumballs, and 303030 pink gumballs. What percentage of the gumballs are red?.

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Answer:

%26

Step-by-step explanation:

We can set up a proportion to find out what percentage of the gumballs are red:

[tex]\frac{525252}{232323+525252+343434+616161+303030} =\frac{x}{100}[/tex]

[tex]\frac{525252}{2020200} =\frac{x}{100}[/tex]

[tex](525252)(100)=2020200(x)[/tex]

[tex]\frac{(525252)(100)}{2020200} =x[/tex]

[tex]26=x[/tex]

Since we set up x as a fraction of 100 when writing the proportion we can say that the percentage of red gumballs is %26.