Two-term Ratios

1. In a bag of red and green sweets, the ratio of red sweets to

green sweets is 3:4. If the bag contains 120 green sweets, how
many red sweets are there?
Solution:

2. Clothing store A sells T-shirts in only three colors: red, blue

and green. The colors are in the ratio of 3 to 4 to 5. If the store
has 20 blue T-shirts, how many T-shirts does it have altogether?
Solution:
x = red shirts; y = green shirts

x = red sweets
3 120 = 4 x
360 = 4x
Answer: There are 90 red sweets.
2. John has 30 marbles, 18 of which are red and 12 of which are
blue. Jane has 20 marbles, all of them either red or blue. If the
ratio of the red marbles to the blue marbles is the same for both
John and Jane, then John has how many more blue marbles than
Jane?
Solution:
Jane has 20 marbles, all of them either red or blue
x = blue marbles for Jane; 20 x = red marbles for Jane
Get the ratio from John: John has 30 marbles, 18 of which are

red and 12 of which are blue:

We use the same ratio for Jane:

3 x = 2 (20 x)
3x = 40 2x
5x = 40
X = 40/5 = 8
John has 12 blue marbles. So, he has 12 8 = 4 more blue marbles
than Jane.
Answer: John has 4 more blue marbles than Jane.
Three-term Ratios
1. A special cereal mixture contains rice, wheat and corn in the
ratio of 2:3:5. If a bag of the mixture contains 3 pounds of rice,
how much corn does it contain?
Solution:
x = amount of corn

2*x=3*5
2x = 15
x = 15/2 = 7.5 lbs of corn

3 x 20 = x * 4
60 = 4x
X = 60/4 = 15 red shirts
5 * 20 = y * 4
100 = 4y
Y = 25 green shirts
15 RED + 25 GRN + 20 BLU = 60 Shirts
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