Question

A bag contains 150 marbels some of the marbles areblueand the rest of the marbles are white in the bag there a 21 blue marbles for every 4 marbles

how many of each color marbel blue and white are in the

bag ?

Answer 1

126 blue marbles, 24 white marbles

Explanation:

The ratio of blue marbles to white marbles is 21 to 4. From this, we have this equation:

`21x + 4x = 150`

`25x = 150`

`x = 6`

So we have 21 × 6 = 126 blue marbles and 4 × 6 = 24 blue marbles.

126/24 = 21/4