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Calculating Percent of Calories from Fat in Brownies

A menu labeling assistant at a school cafeteria is verifying the nutritional details of a standard brownie recipe. The recipe card indicates that one brownie contains 190 total calories, with 76 of those calories coming from fat. Recalling the training on algebraic translations of percent sentences:

  1. State the algebraic equation that represents the question 'What percent of 190 is 76?' using pp as the unknown percent.
  2. State the final percentage of calories that come from fat once the equation is solved.

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