SOLUTION: a bag contains 8 yellow marbles and 6 blue marbles. what number of yellow marbles can you add to the bag so that the ratio of yellow to blue marbles is 2:1?
we want yellow to be
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: a bag contains 8 yellow marbles and 6 blue marbles. what number of yellow marbles can you add to the bag so that the ratio of yellow to blue marbles is 2:1?
we want yellow to be twice as big as blue
since blue is 6 then we want yellow to be 12
so we must add 4 more yellow
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