Question

A box contains a combination of solid-colored tickets: 1/10 of the tickets are green, 1/2 are red, 1/4 are blue, and the remaining 30 tickets are white. How many blue tickets are in the box?

F. 10
G. 20
H. 50
J. 100
K. 200

I know the correct answer is H. 50 but I have no idea how they got that answer. I feel like the problem is missing key information in order to solve it, for example, how many tickets total were in the box.

Can anyone explain to me how to get that answer, please?

Answer 1

I think AceSpeedFighter Might Know this

Answer 2

I'm not really sure how to tag people. This is my first question, heh. How do you tag someone that might be able to help?

Answer 3

hashtag i know you know who AceSpeedFighter is

Answer 4

Yes I do, but I thought for them to see the question you need to tag them. Am I wrong?

Answer 5

@AceSpeedFighter

Answer 6

Thank you

Answer 7

I would guess it woulb be D for my Di.....Dribble

Answer 8

But thats just a guess

Answer 9

Have you seen my name?

Answer 10

I'm not going to humor you, Silver. You're being condescending for no reason.

Answer 11

SilverSpeedFighter-AceSpeedFighter-NovaSpeedFighter-SlySpeedFighter-SycSpeedFighter-SonicSpeedFighter-TrEcSpeedFighter

Answer 12

If you can't help me, then please don't reply just to be rude.

Answer 13

How am i being rude? ;-;

Answer 14

Let the total number of ticket be n.
Now we can write:
\[\large \frac{n}{10}+\frac{n}{2}+\frac{n}{4}=\frac{2n+10n+5n}{20}=\frac{17}{20}n\]
Therefore the 30 white tickets must be 3/20 of the total number of tickets.
\[\large \frac{3}{20}n=30\]
So the total number of tickets is 200. The number of blue tickets is 200/4 = 50.

Answer 15

I KNEW IT SEE

Answer 16

Hashtag why do you think im being rude?

Answer 17

i know you see this msg

Answer 18

Thank you Kropot. I appreciate the help.

Answer 19

WOW

Answer 20

Your being a real jerk

Answer 21

Cmon stop being a jerk

Answer 22

You're welcome :)