SOLUTION: Would you please explain how to work this problem. Thank you in advance. There are 5 white beans. There are 1/3 as many white beans as red. There are 2/3 as many pinto beans

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Question 413043: Would you please explain how to work this problem. Thank you in advance.
There are 5 white beans. There are 1/3 as many white beans as red.
There are 2/3 as many pinto beans as red beans. There are 3/5 as many black beans as red beans. How many beans are there in all? What fraction represents the number of black beans?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Hi

white beans: 5

red beans:   15   |3*5

pinto beans: 10   |2/3)*15

black beans:  9   |3/5)*15

             39  Beans in all of which 9 are black   | 9/39 = 3/13 of them are black 

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