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The lunch choices last Friday were mushroom or pepperoni pizza. The cafeteria made $30$ pizzas in all, $30\%$ of which were mushroom pizzas. How many mushroom pizzas did the cafeteria make? $\newline$ $\_\_\_\_$ mushroom pizzas

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Percents of numbers: word problems

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Q. The lunch choices last Friday were mushroom or pepperoni pizza. The cafeteria made

30

pizzas in all,

30\%

of which were mushroom pizzas. How many mushroom pizzas did the cafeteria make?

\newline

\_\_\_\_

mushroom pizzas

Convert to decimal: Step $1$ : Convert $30\%$ to a decimal. $\newline$ $30\% = \frac{30}{100} = 0.30$
Calculate mushroom pizzas: Step $2$ : Calculate the number of mushroom pizzas. $\newline$ Total number of pizzas = $30$ $\newline$ Percent as decimal = $0.30$ $\newline$ Number of mushroom pizzas = $0.30 \times 30$
Perform multiplication: Step $3$ : Perform the multiplication to find the number of mushroom pizzas. $0.30 \times 30 = 9$

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