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Troy had 44 celery sticks on a tray for his party. He put peanut butter on 25% of the celery sticks. How many celery sticks on the tray had peanut butter on them?

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Hello!

We know that any given percentage can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100, as follows:

[tex] \frac{x}{100} [/tex]

Because we want to find 25% of the celery sticks, we can convert this percentage into the following fraction:

[tex] \frac{25}{100} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{1}{4} [/tex]

Now multiply this reduced fraction by the number of celery sticks:

44 × [tex] \frac{1}{4} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{44}{4} [/tex]

The fraction [tex] \frac{44}{4} [/tex] can be reduced to a value of 11. We have now proven that 11 celery sticks received peanut butter.

I hope this helps!

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