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A jar contains 360 beans. Of all the beans, 1/4 are white beans and the rest are black beans. What is the ration of white beans to black beans?

User Minuddin Ahmed Rana
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Answer is 1:3

Step-by-step explanation:

1/4 = 0.25

0.25*360 = 90

90 white beans, 360-90 = 270 black beans

The ratio of white to black is 90:270 which fully simplifies to 1:3 after dividing both parts by the GCF 90.

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