Question

A bag contains blue, orange and red jelly beans only there are 6x blue jelly beans, 2x-3 orange jelly beans and 15-x red jelly beans there are a total of 54 jelly beans in the bag.

a) how many orange jelly beans are there in the bag?
b) how many blue jelly beans are there in the bag?​

Answer 1

a.9

b.36

Explanation:

Blue beans + orange beans + red beans = 54

6x + 2x-3 + 15-x = 54

6x+2x-x=54+3-15

7x=42

divide both sides by 7

x=6

a. orange beans = 2x-3

but x=6

2(6)-3

12-3

=9

b.blue beans =6x

6(6)

=36