Question

Jared bought a package of pens containing 20 pens if 3/4 of the pens have black ink how do you determine the number of pens with black ink

Answer 1

The number of black ink pen are 15 pens.

Explanation:

As given

Jared bought a package of pens containing 20 pens.

`if\ (3)/(4)\ of\ the\ pens\ have\ black\ ink.`

Thus

`Number\ of\ black\ ink\ pens = (3)/(4)* Total\ number\ of\ pens`

Putting the value

`Number\ of\ black\ ink\ pens = (3)/(4)* 20`

Number of black ink pens = 3 × 5

= 15 pens

Therefore the number of black ink pen are 15 pens.