Question

A bag contains red, yellow and green sweets.2/5 of the sweets are red and 1/4 of the sweets are yellow. What fraction of the sweets are green?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Let x = the number or green sweets

Let x + 8 = the number of red sweets

red/green: (x + 8)/x = 5/3      Cross multiply

5x = 3(x + 8)

5x = 3x + 24

2x = 24

x = 12 green sweets