Grace has a rectangular rug with an area of 180 square feet. The rug is 6 feet longer than four times the width. Write an equati
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Answer:
<em>There are 72 crayons in the box</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Fractions</u>
To solve this problem we'll manage numbers as fractions to keep the precision up to the end of it.
Lynn has a box of crayons. It's given 4/9 of the crayons are blue. The remaining crayons are:
From that portion, 65% are red, or equivalently, 35% are yellow.
We write 35% as a fraction:
Thus, the portion of yellow crayons is:
This fraction of x crayons is equal to 14, thus:
x = 72
There are 72 crayons in the box