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Jennifer is making frendship braclets. She makes 4 with neon colors for every 3 she makes. If Jennifer made 16 bracelts with neon colors, how many did she make with pastel colors?

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Answer: 12

Explanation:

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She made 12 bracelets with pastel colors

Here, we want to get the number of bracelets she made with pastel colors

From the question, we are told that for every 4 bracelets she makes with neon colors, she has 3 bracelets made with pastel colors

So the ratio of neon to pastel color bracelets is 4 to 3

For the 16 neon bracelets, let the number of pastel colored bracelets made be x

Thus, we have;


\begin{gathered} 4\colon3\text{ = 16:x} \\ (4)/(3)\text{ = }(16)/(x) \\ \\ 4\text{ }*\text{ x = 16 }*\text{ 3} \\ \\ 4x\text{ = 48} \\ \\ x\text{ = }(48)/(4) \\ \\ x\text{ = 12} \end{gathered}

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