Hello!
We know that any given percentage can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100, as follows:
Because we want to find 25% of the celery sticks, we can convert this percentage into the following fraction:
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Now multiply this reduced fraction by the number of celery sticks:
44 × = 
The fraction can be reduced to a value of 11. We have now proven that 11 celery sticks received peanut butter.
I hope this helps!
We know that any given percentage can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100, as follows:
Because we want to find 25% of the celery sticks, we can convert this percentage into the following fraction:
Now multiply this reduced fraction by the number of celery sticks:
44 ×
The fraction
I hope this helps!