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A community is now achieving a 25 percent by weight separation of wastes made up of the following items: mixed paper, 44%; cardboard, 6%; plastics, 10%; yard waste, 16%; glass,

12%; and mixed metal (tin cans and other metals), 12%. If the distribution of waste components given in column 3 of Table 3-4 is representative of the wastes that are now collected, determine the as generated percentage distribution of the waste components.

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