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The honeybees at Shmoopyvale Farms pollinate approximately 0.6 acres of clover flowers per day.

If there are 46 acres of clover flowers at the farm, what percentage of the clover flowers do the bees pollinate per day?


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Okay Aspiring math people got another drill question for you

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Here we go the honeybee said shmoop e veil farms

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pollinate approximately point six acres of clover flowers per day

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If there are forty six acres of clover flowers at

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the farm what percentage of clover flowers at shmoop evil

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farms do the bees pollinate per day Okay well this

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problem wants us to figure out what percentage of the

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total acreage of clover flowers the bees were able to

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cover in a day We know that they pollinate point

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six acres per day and we know that the total

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acreage is forty six acres So we need to find

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out what point six acres out of forty six acres

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would be expressed as a percentage So to do this

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well you just take the ratio It's point six over

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forty six and using a calculator and multiply it by

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one hundred to convert it to a percentage And so

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what does that get us while point six about it

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by forty six is point o one three so it's

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about one point three percent Yeah The bees pollinate one

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point three percent of the clover flowers per day and

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that's it So the answer is seat in happy pollinating

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They're bees You look like you all swiped right

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