In a bag of small balls 1\4 of them are green 1\8 are blue 1/12 are yellow and the remaining 26 are white.how many balls are blue

Question

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Answer 1

b represents number of ball

b/4 + b/8 + b/12             part that is non-white

6b/24 + 3b/24 + 2b/24    LCD

11b/24                       number of non-white balls

13b/24                       number of white balls

13b/24 = 26

b = 48

 

Can you now determine the number of each of the other colors and answer?

 

 

Answer 2

Translation from words to equations is often tricky—this one is particularly tricky.

But First Things First:

identify the quantities involved

Let x be the total number of small balls

let g be the number of green balls

Let b be the number of blue balls

let y be the number of yellow balls

let w be the number of white balls

 

Next, translate the words into equations

g = (1/4)x

b = (1/8)x

y = (1/12)x

w =26

and there’s one more equation that is sort of hidden— it says that w is “ the remaining 26”. That’s your only clue that those four colors are ALL the balls. They add up to x. So the last equation is

g + b+ y + w = x

 

To solve this, substitute each of the little equations into the long one, and solve for x. WAIT!! The problem asks for “b”, so once you’ve found x, plug that into the formula for b, and that’s your answer.