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prealgebra senior

Problem

Last summer of the birds living on Town Lake were geese, were swans, were herons, and were ducks. What percent of the birds that were not swans were geese?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
To simplify the problem, WLOG, let us say that there were a total of birds. The number of birds that are not swans is . The number of geese is . Therefore the percentage is just
Final answer
C