Problema Solution
Of the 505050 U.S. states, 444 have names that start with the letter \text{W}WW. What percentage of U.S. states have names that start with the letter \text{W}WW?
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The wording is ambiguous but it appears that every character is being tripled, so we assume that '505050' means '50', '444' means '4' and '{W}WW' means 'W'. There are four of the 50 states who start with 'W', hence the percentage of states which begin with the letter 'W' is (note that multiplying by 100 converts the answer from a decimal to a percentage):
(4/50)100=
8
So 8% of the states begin with the letter 'W'.