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The ratio of black bags to blue bags is 5to 3 if there are a total of 10 black bags ,then how many blue bags are there

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Answer:

6

Explanation:

We can think of the 10 black bags as 2 sets of 5-black bags (10 divided into groups of 5; 10 / 5 ; is 2 groups/sets). So, we would also have two sets of 3 (3 x 2 = 6), or 6 bags.

5 : 3 = 10 : 6

(multiply both numbers by 2)

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