Question

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 .

Answer 1

Answer: 85

Explanation:

1. Divide the number of orange sweets by 3.

2. Multiply the quotient by 2.

3. Add the yellow sweets (the answer you get for the 2nd step), by the amount of orange sweets to get your answer.

=> 51 / 3 = 17

=> 17 x 2 = 34

=> 51 + 34 = 85