Emily's family loves to work together in the garden. They have a slight preference for flowers, as 60\%60%60, percent of their plants are flowers and 40\%40%40, percent are vegetables. They have 505050 plants growing in the garden. How many vegetable plants do they have?

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Emily's family loves to work together in the garden. They have a slight preference for flowers, as 60\%60%60, percent of their plants are flowers and 40\%40%40, percent are vegetables. They have 505050 plants growing in the garden.
How many vegetable plants do they have?
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We are given that there are 50 plants in total in the garden.

Out of them 40% plants are vegetables and 60% plants are flowers.

So, 40% of the total number of plants will be the number of vegetables in the garden.

Now, x% of y means:

x% of y=x100×y

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