Question

Five-sixths of the boats in the marina are white, 2 5 of the remaining boats are blue, and the rest are red. If there are 12 red boats, how many boats are in the marina?

Answer 1

Answer: There are 120 boats in the marina.

Explanation:

Let's suppose that there are N boats

We know that 5/6 of them are white, then we have: (5/6)*N white boats.

The remaining is: N - (5/6)*N = (1/6)*N

We know that 2/5 of the remaining are blue, then we have:

(2/5)*(1/6)*N blue boats

And the rest are red, the rest is:

(1/6)*N - (2/5)*(1/6)*N = (3/5)*(1/6)*N

Then we have (3/5)*(1/6)*N red boats.

And we know that there are 12 red boats, then:

(3/5)*(1/6)*N = 12

Now we can solve this for N, which is the total number of boats in the marina.

N = 12*(6)*(5/3) = 120

There are 120 boats in the marina.