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A bag contains orange and yellow sweets the ratio of orange to yellow sweets is 3:2 There are 51 orange sweets in the bag find the total number of sweets in the bag.

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Answer: 34

Step-by-step explanation: the ratio is 3:2 we know that there are 51 orange sweets but we don’t know how many are yellow so the current ratio is 51:x we need to find x so if we divide 3 by 51 the answer is 17 so we need to multiply 17 by 2 which is 34 so x is equaled to 34 the final ratio is 51:34

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