SOLUTION: if you have 67 beads twice as many white beads as red beads and twice as many green beads as white beads and the number of blue beads is only one more than the number of green bead

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Question 347072: if you have 67 beads twice as many white beads as red beads and twice as many green beads as white beads and the number of blue beads is only one more than the number of green beads. How many beads of each color do you have?
Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if you have 67 beads twice as many white beads as red beads and twice as many green beads as white beads and the number of blue beads is only one more than the number of green beads. How many beads of each color do you have?
white be 2x
red will be x
green 4x
blue1+4x
total 67
2x+x+4x+1+4x=67
11x+1=67
11x=66
x= 6
you can work out the others
white= 12
green 24
bkue= 25
Total 67

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