Question

The ratio of pink marbles to white marbles in Samara's bag is equal 1:5.What present of the bag contains pink marbles

Answer 1

Either 20% or a little bit less

Answer 2

pink : white = 1 : 5

For each pink marble, there are 5 white marbles.

Imagine the number of marbles is actually 1 pink marble and 5 white marbles.

Then the total number of marbles is 1 + 5 = 6.

The percent of pink marbles is

1/6 * 100 = 16.67%