Question

Kenzie finds purple, blue, and silver space rocks while exploring, 2/3 of the rocks are purple and 3/4 of the remainder are blue. If there are 3 silver rocks, how many space rocks does Kenzie have?a

Answer 1

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Answer 2

There were 36 space rocks in total.

Explanation:

First, you need to find what fraction of the original rocks are silver.

If 2/3 are purple, then 1/3 of them are not.

If 3/4 of the remaining 1/3 are blue, then 3/4 x 1/3 = 3/12 rocks are blue.

2/3 of the rock are purple, 3/12 of them are blue, and the remaining is silver.

So, you need to do 2/3 - 3/12, then find common denominators so, 8/12 - 3/12 which = 1/12.

This means 1/12 of the rocks are silver. If there are silver rocks, you need to find a suitable equation that needs to be solved.

So:

1/12r = 3

r = 36 silver rocks

There were 36 space rocks in total.

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