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Percent and Proportions, a la Shmoop. Candace never got the popular boy.

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Back in high school she had acne, headgear... and it was the 80's.

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But now that she's on the show Life-Threatening Makeover...

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...she's gotten a chemical peel, tooth veneers, Lasik eye surgery, liposuction and

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hair extensions. Right now, she's about to get out of her

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car and approach the boy she dreamed about all through high school..

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...but she's parked under a tree... If two hundred pigeons sit in that tree and

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25 percent of them poop on Candace, how many pigeons poop on Candace?

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Percent means "per hundred".

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We can write an equation that states:

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Some part of the pigeons... over the whole number of pigeons... equals some percent

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of 100.

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Let's replace these words with variables.

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A over B equals P over 100. Which numbers can we plug in?

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B is our total number of pigeons, which we know is 200.

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And P is our percent, which we know is 25.

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Now the equation only has one variable, so let's solve for A.

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Multiply both sides by 200, and we get A equals 25 times 2...

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...which simplifies to 50. So 50 pigeons poop on Candace just as she

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exits the car. Candace just can't catch a break.

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Oh well, at least Blake didn't see.

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