Question

Given the ratio 2 green to 4 pink to 3 yellow (2:4:3), in a bag of 27 jellybeans, how many yellow jellybeans are in the bag? Show your work.

Answer 1

The ratio of green jelly beans to pink jelly beans to yellow jelly beans is 2:4:3.

The total number of jelly beans is equals to 27. The number of yellow jelly beans can be calculated as follows

`\begin{gathered} \text{yellow jelly beans = }(3)/(9)*27 \\ \text{yellow jelly beans=}(81)/(9) \\ \text{yellow jelly beans}=9 \end{gathered}`

Number of yellow jelly beans in the bag = 9