SOLUTION: There are green and blue marbles in a bag. The number of green marbles is 3/5 the number of blue marbles. what is the proportion of green marbles in the bag?
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Question 846856: There are green and blue marbles in a bag. The number of green marbles is 3/5 the number of blue marbles. what is the proportion of green marbles in the bag?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the number of blue marbles.
Then (3/5)x is the number of green marbles.
The total number of marbles is
The proportion of green to total is
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