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A bag contains 75 marbles some red some blue the ratio of red marbles to blue marbles is 3 to 2 how many red marbles are there

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Answer: 45 red marbles

Explanation:

Using the ratios, we can create a fraction for the number of marbles.

3/5 of the bag would be red marbles, and 2/5 of the bag would be blue marbles.

(you get the 5 from adding 3+2 together)

If you take 3/5 of 75, you would get 45 red marbles.

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The correct answer is 45
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