Question

Mary picks 15 flowers from her garden. If 3 out of 5 of these flowers are yellow, how many yellow flowers does Mary pick?

Explain your answer:

Answer 1

3*3::5*3
So, she picked 9 yellow flowers.

Answer 2

By putting up ratios, we can satisfy our answer

Answer 3

so, every 3 out of 5 flowers is yellow. now she picks 15 flowers that is 3 times as many right? so how many flowers would be yellow? three times as many as no. of flowers that turned yellow in 5. that is 3 times 3!!

Answer 4

mary picks 3 flowers out of each five flowers so 15 = 3 *5 i.e three times she picked up five flowers and each time she picks 5 flowers she picks up three yellow flowers... therefore she actually picked up 3 times three yellow flowers i.e. 9 yellow flowers

Answer 5

She picked 9 yellow flowers.