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I organized an ocean cleanup and we collected a total of 25 pounds of garbage 16 pounds of the garbage consisted of plastic what percent of the garbage was plastic

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14% of the garbage was plastic
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64%. You would divide 16 from 25 because you're trying to find the amount of garbage that was plastic.

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