Check if the percentages of each product add up to 100.

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Understand the Question

To check if the percentages of ingredients for each product add up to $100\%$ , the percentage value of each ingredient (Sugar, Milk Solids, Badam Powder, and Food Chemicals) must be known.
We examine the given table for products DEF and Zacni to determine if sufficient data is provided to calculate the total percentage for each.

Step 1 · Examine the Provided Data

From the given table for products DEF and Zacni: Diagram 1

Product DEF: Only the percentage of Sugar is given ( $66\%$ ). The percentages for Milk Solids, Badam Powder, and Food Chemicals are not provided.
Product Zacni: No ingredient percentages are provided.

Step 2 · Determine if Total Percentages Can Be Calculated

To check if the percentages add up to $100\%$ :

For Product DEF: $\text{Total} = 66\% + \text{Milk Solids} + \text{Badam Powder} + \text{Food Chemicals}$ Since the values for the remaining three ingredients are missing, the sum cannot be evaluated.
For Product Zacni: No values are given, so the sum cannot be evaluated.

Therefore, with the given data, it cannot be determined whether the percentages add up to $100\%$ for either product.

Answer

The percentages cannot be checked to see if they add up to $100\%$ because the data is incomplete (only Sugar for product DEF is given as $66\%$ , and all other ingredient percentages are missing).

Common Mistakes

Assuming Missing Values are Zero: Assuming that blank or unlisted ingredient percentages are $0\%$ rather than recognizing that data is missing.
Premature Conclusion: Concluding that DEF does not add up to $100\%$ simply because Sugar is $66\%$ , overlooking that the remaining $34\%$ could belong to the other three ingredients.

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