Question

Maleia is organzing her hair tie collection. She currently has 1400 hair ties and wants to separate them by color. She owns black, pink, and blue hair ties. She has four times as many black hair ties as blue hair ties and half as many pink hair ties as black hair ties. How many hair ties of each color does she own?

Please show work.

Answer 1

Let black be x:

1400= x(black) + x/2(pink) + x/4(blue)

Now solve for x

X= 800 so there are 800 black ties now you can use this to find how many blue and pink u hve which is 200 blue and 400 pick