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Algebra Difficulty 1.2 Junior Find the answer Canada

A theatre has $600$ seats.
Exactly $25\%$ of these seats are
filled. All of the people in the seats then move to an empty theatre
that has $200$ seats. What percentage
of the seats in the smaller theatre are now filled?

Pick one

Solution

Since $25\%$ of $600$ is $\dfrac{25}{100}\times600=25\times6=150$ ,
then $150$ people move to the empty
theatre.

The percentage of the seats now filled in the smaller theatre is $\$\dfrac{150}{200}\times 100\%=\dfrac{150}{2}\%=75\%\$.$

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