In a population, the allele frequencies of the ABO blood type alleles are A=0.2, B=0.3, and O=0.5
. If mating is random and the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what percent of people having blood type A (AA, AO) are homozygous?

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In a population, the allele frequencies of the ABO blood type alleles are A=0.2, B=0.3, and O=0.5
. If mating is random and the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what percent of people having blood type A (AA, AO) are homozygous? Please express your answer as a percent and round it to two digits (such as 42 or 89).

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