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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. 13 Jan 2021, 05:15
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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. One-half of widgets are made of silver and the rest are made of gold. If 10% of the widgets are silver and blue, and 80 are black and gold, how many total widgets are there?

A. 140
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C. 180
D. 200
E. 250
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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. 13 Jan 2021, 11:29
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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. One-half of widgets are made of silver and the rest are made of gold. If 10% of the widgets are silver and blue, and 80 are black and gold, how many total widgets are there?

A. 140
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D. 200
E. 250
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Silver Gold total
Blue 0.1 0.1 0.2t

Black 0.4t 80 0.8t

Total 0.5 0.5 t

0.8t-0.4t=80

T =200

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Kindly refer the image below:

We know that 80 widgets are black and gold, which is equal to 40%
So total = 80/.40 = 200
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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. One-half of widgets are made of silver and the rest are made of gold. If 10% of the widgets are silver and blue, and 80 are black and gold, how many total widgets are there?

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Problems like this are intimidating without a defined method. Because the two sets of information given are complementary (meaning they account for all possibilities; every widget is either black or blue and every widget is either silver or gold) you should set up a Matrix Box, as shown. First fill in all the percent information given:



As you can see, by inserting that information you can now fill in everything else:



Now you can leverage the fact that 80 widgets are black and gold to determine the total. 80 = 40% of the total, so 80 = .4T and T = 200.


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x/5 - x/10 = x/2 - 80
x = 200

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In a production lot, 20% of widgets are blue and the rest are black. One-half of widgets are made of silver and the rest are made of gold. If 10% of the widgets are silver and blue, and 80 are black and gold, how many total widgets are there?

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Problems like this are intimidating without a defined method. Because the two sets of information given are complementary (meaning they account for all possibilities: Every widget is either black or blue, and every widget is either silver or gold) you should set up a Matrix Box as shown below. First fill in all the percent information given:



As you can see, by inserting that information you can now fill in everything else:



Now you can leverage the fact that 80 widgets are black and gold to determine the total. 80 = 40% of the total, so 80 = .4T and T = 200.

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