Question

A typical small bag of colored candies has about 135 candies in it, 27 of which are blue.At this rate,how many blue candies would you expect in a pile of 1000 colored candies?

Answer 1

There are 135 colored candies in a small typical bag, in which in every 135 colored candies, there are 27 blue candies.
Now, if there are 1 000 pile of colored candies, how much is the total number of blue candies.
First, let’s identify how many 135 candies are there in 1 000 candies
=> 1 000 / 135
=> there are 7.407407…. repeating decimals.
Now, let’s multiply this by 27
=> 7.407… x 27
= 200, thus, there are 200 blue candies in 1000 pile of colored-candies.