Question

A gumball machine contains 2323 green gumballs, 5252 red gumballs, 3434 blue gumballs, 6161 yellow gumballs, and 3030 pink gumballs.
What percentage of the gumballs are red?

Answer 1

If you add all the gumballs together you get a total of 20200 gumballs now you just divide 5252 by the total number of 20200 to get the percent of 26% giving us the answer to what the percent of red there is in this container

(add all the number, divide the total number of reds by the total number of gumballs (5252 divided by 20200) which will give you the percent of red gumballs (26%)