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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

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A great way to cleanse the palate after downing a box of Mint Milanos.

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Emily ate a Chocolate Chunk cookie and drank a Grande <<GRAHN-day>> Caramel

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Macchiato <<MOCK-ee-ah-toe>>, which has 240 calories and 7 grams of fat.

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What percent of her recommended daily intake of 2000 calories did she consume?

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And here are the potential answers…

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It wants us to find the percent of Emily’s 2000 calorie intake that she ate...

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which means we only care about the number of calories she consumed,

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not the amount of fat in her Macchiato. So we can just throw that out.

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Now, to calculate a percent, we just divide our amount by the total, and multiply by 100.

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In this case, the total is 2000 calories, and our amount is the number of calories in

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a chocolate chunk and grande caramel macchiato.

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We’re given that the macchiato has 240 calories,

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and the chocolate chunk, according to the table, has 360 calories.

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Add them. So 240 plus 360 gives us 600 calories.

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Then just take 600 divided by 2000, we get .3.

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Then multiply it by 100, we see that, these two food items, when consumed together...

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...tell us that Emily has had 30% of her daily calorie intake.

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The answer's D.

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Which will be roughly the shape of Emily’s belly if she keeps up her current dietary habits…

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