SOLUTION: Please solve this question A string of flags is made up of red, blue, green,and orange flags. Half of the flags are blue, and one tenth are oranges. There are equal number of re

Question 1099389: Please solve this question
A string of flags is made up of red, blue, green,and orange flags.
Half of the flags are blue, and one tenth are oranges. There are equal number of red and green.
If There are 12 oranges flags, how many red ones are there ?
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Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
there are 12 orange flages.
they represent 10% of all the flage.
12 / .1 = 120 flags total.
half are blue, therefore 60 blue
there are 60 blue and 12 orange for a total of 72.
120 - 72 = 48 flags that are red or green.
that makes 24 red and 24 green.
solution is 24 red.

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