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An important thing to note is that whichever way Mo shares the sweets, the total number of sweets he has does not change. It means that if he chooses the first method to share the sweets, or the second method, he still has the same number of sweets. This will be helpful in setting up an equation that will help us solve the problem.

If he chooses the first way to share the sweets:

7x + 2 = total number of sweets available.

This is because each of his friends gets 7 sweets each, with 2 leftovers. If we add them up, it will give the total number of sweets available to be shared.

If he chooses the second way to share the sweets:

6x + 7 = total number of sweets available.

This is because each of his friends gets 6 sweets each, with 7 leftovers. If we add them up, it will give the total number of sweets available to be shared.

because the total number of sweets do not change, we have

7x +2 = 6x +7

Grouping like terms,

7x - 6x = 7 - 2

x = 5.

Therefore, Mo is sharing the sweets between 5 friends

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Answer:

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A bag contains 170 marbles. There are red, blue and yellow marbles in a ratio of 9:3:5. How many yellow marbles does the bag con

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Answer:

50 yellow marbles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Information:

170 marbles

RED : BLUE : YELLOW

9 : 3 : 5

Solving:

To find out how many yellow parts there are, we need to find out how many marbles 5 parts account to.

Altogether, 9 + 3 + 5 = 17. This means there are 17 parts.

The bag contains 170 marbles and the ratio adds up to 17 parts.

We can figure out what 1 part of the ratio accounts to by dividing 170 by 17.

$\frac{170}{17}$ = 10.

1 part = 10

Now remember yellow is 5 parts, now that we know that 1 part is 10, we need to multiply 10 by 5 to find out how many yellow marbles we have.

5 x 10 = 50.

Therefore we have 50 yellow marbles.

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