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in a bag of red and green sweets,the ratio of red sweets to green sweets is 3:4. if the bag contains 24 green sweets how many red sweets are there

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16-05-2016

set this up as a proportion 3:4 to x:24 and then you cross multiply getting:

4x = 72

Now divide by 4 and you get:

x = 18

so there are 18 red sweets.

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