Question

HELP

Each marble bag sold by Deshaun's Marble Company contains
3
purple marbles for every
5
blue marbles. If a bag has
15
purple marbles, how many blue marbles does it contain?

Answer 1

Okay so it says that there are 3 purple to every 5 blue marbles. 3=5

Now it also mentions that the bag has 15 purple marbles... So you have to divide the 15 purple marbles in the bag by the mention before.

So what is 15/3

Answer 2

*by the 3 marbles mentioned before

Answer 3

5

Answer 4

Exactly! So keep in mind that 3=5 and they multiplied the purple(3) by 5 to get fifteen

Answer 5

So if you multipled 3 by 5 then what would you multiply the 5 blue by?

Answer 6

5

Answer 7

so what would your answer be

Answer 8

25

Answer 9

precisely!