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A bag of colored candles contains 18 red candles and 27 blue candles. What percent of the candles are red?

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A whole bag of colored candles has 45 candles in it.
If 18 are red, then 27 are blue.
Blue: 27/45 = 3/5 = 0.6 = 60%
Red: 18/45 = 2/5 = 0.4 = 40%

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