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Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer Canada

In a bin at the Cayley Convenience Store, there are 200200 candies. Of these candies, 90%90\% are black and the rest are gold. After Yehudi eats some of the black candies, 80%80\% of the remaining candies in the bin are black. How many black candies did Yehudi eat?

(A) 22 (B) 2020 (C) 4040 (D) 100100 (E) 160160

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