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#1 2011-02-01 12:02:06
- coody
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Finding Proportion
In a gunball machine, there are 2 orange gunballs for every 3 yellow gumballs. there are 80 orange gumballs in the machine. find the number of yellow gunballs in the machine.
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#2 2011-02-01 12:05:11
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Re: Finding Proportion
I need help in finding the meaning of solving proprotion and writing them in math form.
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#3 2011-02-01 13:08:00
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Re: Finding Proportion
In a gunball machine, there are 2 orange gunballs for every 3 yellow gumballs. there are 80 orange gumballs in the machine. find the number of yellow gunballs in the machine.
You are given the proportion of orange gumballs to yellow gumballs. In other words, you know that for every 2 orange gumballs, there are three yellow gumballs. You also know that there are 80 orange gumballs. In math terms, this means:
where x is the number of yellow gumballs in the machine. So, solve for x to answer the problem.
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