2010 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15

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A jar contains $5$ different colors of gumdrops. $30\%$ are blue, $20\%$ are brown, $15\%$ are red, $10\%$ are yellow, and other $30$ gumdrops are green. If half of the blue gumdrops are replaced with brown gumdrops, how many gumdrops will be brown?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 35\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 36\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 42\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 48\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 64$

Solution

We do $100-30-20-15-10$ to find the percent of gumdrops that are green. We find that $25\%$ of the gumdrops are green. That means there are $120$ gumdrops. If we replace half of the blue gumdrops with brown gumdrops, then $15\%$ of the jar's gumdrops are brown. $\dfrac{35}{100} \cdot 120=42 \Rightarrow \boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ 42}$

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