Question

I need help finding how many notes there are? the ratio of coins to notes in a bag is 3 to 8. if there are a total of 24 coins how many notes are there?

Answer 1

The ratio of coins to notes in a bag is 3 to 8.

The total number of coins is 24.

Let there be y number of notes in the bag. Then we can write,

`(3)/(8)=(24)/(y)`

On solving we get,

`\begin{gathered} 3y=24*8 \\ y=(24*8)/(3)=64 \end{gathered}`

Thus there are 64 notes in the bag.