Troy had 44 celery sticks on a tray for his party. he put peanut butter on 25% of the celery sticks. how many celery sticks on the tray had peanut butter on them?

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!