Question

Each marble bag sold by alan's marble company contains 6 orange marbles for every 5 yellow marbles. if a bag has 40 yellow marbles, how many orange marbles does it contain?

Answer 1

it has 240 because i multiplied 40 by 6

Answer 2

48 orange marbles

Explanation:

`(6)/(5) = (x)/(40)`

`5x = 240`

`x = 48`