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Be given $60 \%$ of $2$ pizzas or $26 \%$ of $5$ pizzas?

 

Have $10 \%$ of $ £5$ or $75 \%$ of $80$p?

 

Be bitten by $15 \%$ of $120$ mosquitoes or $8 \%$ of $250$ mosquitoes?

 

Skip using a rope which is $54 \%$ of $105$cm long, or $88 \%$ of $2.75$m long?

 

Sit in a traffic jam for $33 \%$ of $2$ hours or $44 \%$ of $1$hr $40$mins?

 

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