Question

salina was at a party and she noticed that the room had 54 balloons. for every red balloon there were 2 yellow balloons and 3 blue balloons. how many blue balloons were there?

Answer 1

This question is based on ratio, and so you can put the information about the balloons into a ratio:
1:2:3
Then we add them up to make 6, and then divide 54 by 6 to get 9, which is 1 in terms of the ratio. Now we can do 9 × 3 which is 27, which is the amount of blue balloons. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

27 blue balloons

Explanation:

Salina was at a party and she noticed that the room had 54 balloons.

For every red balloon there were 2 yellow and 3 blue balloons.

This is written in the form of ratio as = 1 : 2 : 3

First we calculate the number of red balloon.

54 / (1 + 2 + 3)

= 54 / 6 = 9 red balloons

For every red balloons there were 3 blue balloons.

Therefore, Blue balloons = 9 × 3 = 27 blue balloons

27 blue balloons were in the room.