Question

in art class, Marvin painted tiles to use for a project.for every 5 blue he painted 8 green .l if he painted 273 ,how many of those where blue

Answer 1

You could find the percentage of blue tiles which is around 38.5% (5 blue/ 5 blue + 8 green). Now that we have the percentage, you can multiply it by 273 to get 105 (273 x 38.5%). 

Therefore, 105 of them were blue