SOLUTION: in a flower bouquet, 13/30 of the flowers were roses,2/5 of the flowers were orchids and the remaining were gladioli. if the number of gladiola flowers were 7, how many flowers wer
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Question 467513: in a flower bouquet, 13/30 of the flowers were roses,2/5 of the flowers were orchids and the remaining were gladioli. if the number of gladiola flowers were 7, how many flowers were there in the bouquet?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I will say for now that total number of flowers =
(1)
This is the fraction of the total
that are gladioli
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Multiply both sides of (1) by ,
the actual total number of flowers
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
There are 42 total flowers
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