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1) There are 200 fish in an aquarium. Of which 1% are blue, the rest are yellow. Howmany yellow fish have to be removed to make the number of blue fish equal 2% of theentire amount of fish?A) 2 B) 4 C) 20 D) 50 E) 100

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  1. There are 200 fish in an aquarium. Of which 1% are blue, the rest are yellow. Howmany yellow fish have to be removed to make the number of blue fish equal 2% of theentire amount of fish?A) 2 B) 4 C) 20 D) 50 E) 100
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Solution

First, let's find out how many blue fish there are. 1% of 200 is 2, so there are 2 blue fish in the aquarium. The rest, which is 200 - 2 = 198, are yellow fish.

Now, we want the 2 blue fish to represent 2% of the total number of fish. Let's denote the total number of fish after removing some yellow fish as x. So, we have the equation:

2 / x = 2 / 100

Solving for x gives us x = 100.

This means we need to have 100 fish in total for the 2 blue fish to represent 2%. Since we originally had 200 fish, we need to remove 200 - 100 = 100 fish.

So, the answer is E) 100.

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