Question

The orange seashells to pink seashells is 3:7 if we use 40 seashells how many orange shells should we paint

Answer 1

We want 12 orange shells

Explanation:

Orange : pink : total

3 : 7 : 3+7

3 : 7 : 10

We want 40 total 40/10 = 4 so we multiply by 4

3*4 : 7*4 : 10*4

12 :28 : 40

We want 12 orange shells

Answer 2

12 to 28

Explanation:

i just multiplied by 4, just that simple.

Hope this helped^_^