Question

Colin gets pic 'n mix when at the cinema and makes his bag up with 3 types of sweet. He pick:

Answer 1

Answer: 2/3

Explanation: Assume that the number of smarties he picked is c.

Now, we are given that:

1- He picked 3 times as many cola bottles as smarties. This means that:

Number of cola bottles he picked = 3s

2- He picked twice as many smarties as marshmallows. This means that:

number of marshmallows he picked = 0.5s

Now to get the proportion o f cola bottles, we will divide the number of cola bottles by the total number of sweets as follows:

proportion of cola bottles =  

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