Enrique and yolanda collected 500 pieces of candy on halloween. they gave half of their candy to charity. yolanda took 180 pieces of the candy and enrique took the rest . enrique told his mother he got 64% of the candy what did enrique do wrong in calculating his parentage.

500 − 250  = 250 pieces left after donation

Yolanda got  180 piecesthen Enrique  got 70 pieces

So he got   70 /250  = 7/25  =  28%  of the remaining candy

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step-by-step explanation:

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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