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. Pancho ordered a set of blue and black pencils. Hereceived 120 pencils, and 59% of them were black.About how many black pencils did Pancho receive?

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Given data:

The total numbers of pencils are n=120.

The percentage of black pencils is 59%.

The 59% of the total pencils is,

[tex]\begin{gathered} x=\frac{59}{100}\times(n) \\ =0.59\times120 \\ =70.8 \\ \approx71 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Thus, the approx numbers of balck pencils are 71.