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A bag of candycontains Skittles andM&Ms. There are 6Skittles to every 4M&Ms. How many M&Msare there if Emerycounted 18 moreSkittlesthat M&Ms?

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The information that we have is that there are 6 skittles to every 4 M&Ms.

The questio is how many M&Ms there are if we have 18 More skittles than M&Ms.

We use the ratio 6:4 to represent the relationship between skittles and m&ms.

Here we can see that if we have 6 skittles and 4 m&ms, there are 2 more skittles than m&ms.

So we can multiply this ratio (6:4) by a number so that we get a difference of 18.

For example, when we multiply it by 2 we get:

12:8

And here, there are 4 more skittles that m&ms.

The answer is that we need to multiply this ratio by 9:

6x9 : 4x9

54 : 36

this means 54 skittles to 36 m&ms.

And this time the difference between skittles and m&ms is 18 (54-36=18), as the problem states.

Thus the answer is:

How many M&Ms are there if Emery counted 18 more Skittles than M&Ms? 36

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