Question

Sandy has four boxes filled with pink ribbons and yellow ribbons. The table shows the number of pink and yellow ribbons in each box.
Box Number
Pink Ribbons
Yellow Ribbons
1
4
5
2
16
20
3
12
15
4
36
45

A fifth box has pink and yellow ribbons in the same proportion as Sandy’s first four boxes. Which tables could represent box number 5?

Answer 1

There would be 3 boxes of pink ribbon and 2 of yellow ones