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marshall27 [118]
3 years ago
12

A bag contains yellow marbles and blue marbles, 37 in total. The number of yellow marbles is 7 more than 5 times the number of b

lue marbles. How many yellow marbles are there?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Mazyrski [523]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

32

Step-by-step explanation:

let b represent the number of blue marbles then

yellow = 5b + 7 and

b + 5b + 7 = 37, that is

6b + 7 = 37 ( subtract 7 from both sides )

6b = 30 ( divide both sides by 6 )

b = 5

Thus there are 5 blue and 5(5) + 7 = 25 + 7 = 32 yellow marbles

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