Question

3. The ratio of pink marbles to white marbles in Samara's bag is equal to 1:5. What percent of the bag contains pink marbles?Le below is shaded?

Answer 1

Ratio of pink marbles to white marbles is: $1:5$

Let the number of pink marbles are denoted by $p$

and the number of white marbles are denoted by $w$

Then,

$p:w::1:5$

i.e., $\frac{p}{w}=\frac{1}{5}$

The percentage of pink marbles contain in bag is given by: $( \frac{1}{6} ) \times 100$

                                                                                                   $=\frac{100}{6}$

                                                                                                 $=16.67\%$