Question

each marble bag sold by ryan's marble company contains 5 purple marbles for every 8 blue marbles. if a bag has 40 blue marbles, how many purple marbles does it contain?

Answer 1

25 purple marbles

Explanation:

We Know

Each marble bag sold by Ryan's marble company contains 5 purple marbles for every 8 blue marbles.

If a bag has 40 blue marbles, how many purple marbles does it contain?

We Take

40 / 8 = 5

Then we take

5 x 5 = 25 purple marbles

So, there are 25 purple marbles in the bag/