16% of the apples in a basket go bad. if there are 42 good apples in the basket, find the total number of apples in the basket
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the total number of apples be X. If 16% are bad, good apples are 100%-16% = 84% or 0.84X apples.
Given that
0.84X = 42
thus
X = 42/0.84 = 50 apples.
Given that
0.84X = 42
thus
X = 42/0.84 = 50 apples.
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