Question

ACT math practice question.
There are three colors of jelly beans in a bowl. If there are 5 more red ones than blue, and there are 9 more blue ones than green, and the total number of beans is 26, how many green ones are in the bowl?

Now I know there should be some equation set up that I can then solve, I just can't think of what the equation would be for some reason. Please help!

Answer 1

first, create variables to represent the number of each color of jelly beans. For example,
let r = number of red jelly beans
let b = number of blue jelly beans
let g = number of green jelly beans

then you can write an equatio for the total, and possibly some other equations. but this gets you started.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

r=b+5=9+g+5=14+g
b=9+g
r+b+g=26
find g then others.