Question

3 out of 12 candies are orange. In a bag of 100, about how many candies are orange?

Answer 1

88 is the answer

Explanation:

How?

Like this...

3 out of 12 candies are orange, then how many candies are orange?

• 100 - 12 = 88

If you are not sure .. you can also verify your answer by this

• 12 + 88 = 100
• It means that your answer which is coming 88 is absolutely correct!

Answer 2

There are 25 candies that are oranges.

Solving word problems.

In the given word problems, if 3 out of 12 candies are orange, then in a total of 12 candies there are 4 orange.

Now, in a bag of 100 candies, the candies that are orange will be:

3 orange = 12 candies

x orange = 100 candies

Where, x = number of candies that are orange. By cross multiplication, we have:

`x = (3* 100)/(12)`

x = 25 candies that are oranges.

Therefore, we can conclude that there are 25 candies that are oranges.