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Each marble bag sold by Yolanda's Marble Company contains 8 orange marbles for every 5 yellow marbles. If a bag has 40 yellow marbles, how many orange marbles does it contain?
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Each marble bag sold by Yolanda's Marble Company contains 8 orange marbles for every 5 yellow marbles.

If a bag has 40 yellow marbles, how many orange marbles does it contain?

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Answer:

64.

Explanation:

By proportion to number of orange marbles = (40 / 5) * 8

= 320 / 5

= 64 .

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