Question

G.o has 3 orange picks for every two green. If there are 25 picks in all, how many picks are orange

Answer 1

15 picks are orange....

Answer 2

15 orange picks.

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of orange picks.

We have been given that G.o has 3 orange picks for every two green. We are asked to find the number of orange picks, if there are 25 picks in all.

Since there are 3 orange picks for every two green. so there will be 3 orange picks for all 5 (3+2) picks.

We will use proportions to solve our given problem.

`(x)/(25)=(3)/(5)`

Upon multiplying both sides of our equation by 25, we will get:

`(x)/(25)*25=(3)/(5)*25`

`x=3*5`

`x=15`

Therefore, there are 15 orange picks for all 25 picks.