Question

Esther is building a tower of cubes. The ratio of red to yellow cubes is 3:1 The tower has 6 yellow cubes. How many red cubes are there? please help me​

Answer 1

18

Explanation:

We can rewrite the question into mathematical forms, such as:

`(3)/(1) =(x)/(6)`

solve for x:

`(3)/(1) =(x)/(6) \\\\3*6=(x)/(6)*6\\\\18=x`