Question

A bag contains white, blue and red ping-pong balls in the ratio 8 : 3 : 2. There are 10 balls. If 10 white and 10 blue balls are removed from the bag, the new ratio is ?

Answer 1

the new ratio of white, red and blue balls is 6:2:1

Explanation:

The computation of the new ratio is shown below:

If you have 10 red balls, so the blue balls is in proportion of 3:2 that means 15 would be the blue balls. In addition to this, the while balls is in proportion 8:2 = 4:1 so there is a 40 white balls

Now if 10 white and 10 blue balls would be eliminated

So there is 30 white, 10 red, 5 blue bals

Also

30 = 5 × 6

And,

10 = 5 × 2

so the new ratio of white, red and blue balls is 6:2:1