Question

9.

There are only red beads and green beads in a bag.
The ratio of the number of red beads to the number of green beads is 5:9
(a) What fraction of the beads are red?

Answer 1

Assume there are 5x red beads and 9x green beads

Total no. of beads = 5x+9x = 14x

Fraction of beads that are red = 5x out of 14x

or 5/14