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3/5 of the balls in a box are red . The rest are green and red .The ratio of the number of balls to the number of yellow balls is 5:3 .If there are 10 less balls yellow balls than green balls , how many balls are red?​

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Answer:

not possible

Explanation:

it ant be possibe as the answer would come out as 6x/5 which is incorrect.

sorry

User Yixing Lao
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Answer:

Hello this question is impossible ask your teacher or find if you didnt make any mistake copying this HW.

Explanation:

You have 3x/5 red balls but next sentence is talking about that Yellow balls have to be in ratio 5:3 but it is impossible because Red balls + Yellow balls would make 6x/5 of balls which is not possible

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