A bag contains 120 marbles. Some are red and rest are black. There are 19 red marbles for every black marble.How many red marbles are in the bag?

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Erkka Mutanen · Answer 1 · 2023-07-29T13:22:52+0000

Answer: 114 red marbles

Explanation:

We know that for every 20 marbles, there are 19 red and 1 black marble.

So to get from 20 to 120, we multiply by 6. So we take 19 times 6 = 114 red marbles and 6 black marbles,