Problema Solution
36% of the beans in Pythagoras's soup are lentils, and 33 1/3% of those lentils are green.
If Pythagoras removes all green lentils from his soup, then x% of the original beans remain. What is x?
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let 't' the total number of beans to start with
0.36t = lentils
33 1/3 = 100/3 % of 36% of the beans are green lentils:
0.36t(100/3)*(1/100) = 0.12t are green lentils
all the green lentils were removed what is left is:
t - 0.12t = 0.88t or 88% of the original beans remain.