document.write( "Question 1184459: Gillian and Ben had a total of 4850 toys. Ben have 3/7 of his toys to Gillian. She then gave 1/3 of here toys to Ben. The ratio of the number of toys Gillian left to the number of toys Ben left was 2:3.
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document.write( "a) How many toys did Gillian have at the end?
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document.write( "b) How many toys did Ben have at first?\r
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document.write( "Dear teachers, can help me how to do this? Is ratio working backwards I think. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #815072 by josgarithmetic(39616)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! Much should be possible in just your first two sentences (with some writing-adjustment).\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "========================================================= \n" ); document.write( "Gillian and Ben had a total of 4850 toys. Ben had 3/7 as many as Gillian. \n" ); document.write( "=========================================================\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "variable g for number of Gillian's toys at the start, then \n" ); document.write( " Ben had (3/7)g toys at the start.\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( ".\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( ". \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( ". \n" ); document.write( ". \n" ); document.write( " |