Question

Your team wins 18 medals at a competition. The metals are gold, silver, and bronze in a ratio of 2:4:3. How many of each metal did your team win?

Answer 1

Answer

Find out the how many of each metal did your team win.

To prove

As given

Your team wins 18 medals at a competition.

The metals are gold, silver, and bronze in a ratio of 2:4:3.

Let us assume that x be the scalar multiple of the gold, silver and bronze medal.

Thus

Number of gold medal = 2x

Number of silver medal = 4x

Number of bronze medal = 3x

Than the equation becomes

2x + 4x + 3x = 18

9x = 18

$x = \frac{18}{9}$

x = 2

Number of gold medal = 2 × 2

                                      = 4

Number of silver medal = 4 × 2

                                       = 8

Number of bronze medal = 3 × 2

                                           = 6

Therefore the number of gold medal are 4, silver medal are 8, bronze medal are 6.