Question

a bag contains orange sweets and yellow sweets . the ratio of orange sweets to yellow sweets is 3:1 . there are 51 orange sweets in the bag . find the total number of sweets in the bag

Answer 1

Answer:

85

Step-by-step explanation:

1. divide the number of orange sweet by 3
2. multiple by the quotient by 2
3. add the yellow sweet by the amount of orange sweet

• so 51/3 =17
• 17 x 2= 34
• 51 + 34 = 85

answer - 85 is total number of sweet in the bag