SOLUTION: A bag of M&Ms has 50 M&M pieces. Of these, 20 M&M pieces are brown, 16 pieces are red, 8 pieces are green, and 6 pieces are blue. If you eat all the brown M&Ms and give your best f

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Question 938103: A bag of M&Ms has 50 M&M pieces. Of these, 20 M&M pieces are brown, 16 pieces are red, 8 pieces are green, and 6 pieces are blue. If you eat all the brown M&Ms and give your best friend all the red ones, what fraction of the whole bag of M&Ms do you have left?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
50 M&Ms: 20Br, 16R, 8G, 6Bl
eat Browns and give friend the red ...
fraction of the whole bag of M&Ms left: 14/50 = 7/25

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