1/8 of anything is just 1/8 * anything, so
*I'm going to assume you meant stripes.
Answer:
So in total there are 15 chips in the bag.
9 of them are stripes and 6 are numbers.
Step-by-step explanation:
So there are 9 stripes in the bag.
The probability of getting a stripe is 3/5
This means that for every 5 chips that the contestant pulls out, 3 of them should be stripes. This also means 2 of them are numbers.
So we know that 9 of the chips in the bag are stripes. To find the total number of stripes we should divide 9 by 3/5:

So we get:

Answer:
You could either use the second or fourth system as each of these choices have x+y+z=87 in the first equation.
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer(s) is above. Hope it helps!
Answer:
13/2
Step-by-step explanation:
is the number of medals won. So for the number of medals to be equal in both the case we have to equate
in both the equations.
Thus we would have:

Solving for
we have:
.

Answer: 90 miles
Step-by-step explanation:
720/8 = 90