Emily's family loves to work together in the garden. they have a slight preference for flowers, as %60, percent of their plants are flowers and %40, percent are vegetables. they have 50 plants growing in the garden. how many vegetable plants do they have?

Your answer is 20 vegetable plants. To answer this, you just need to find 40% of 50, as 40% of their total plants are vegetables. You can do this by dividing 50 by 10 to get 5, which is 10%, and then multiplying 5 by 4 to get 20, which is 40%.
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