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Your job is to sort and sack marbles for sale a bag contains 55 marbles some red and some green if there are 11 red marbles what is the ratio of red to green marbles?

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Answer:

1:4

Explanation:

There are only two colours available, red and green. We know that there are 11 red marbles and 55 marbles altogether, so the number of green marbles must be 55 - 11, or 44. That means that the ratio of red to green marbles is 11:44, or 1:4.