Of the beads in a box, 3/4 are yellow. Of the remainder, 25% are blue beads and the rest are red beads. There are 15 more red beads than blue beads in the box. How many yellow beads are there?

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Quinten Cruz

25 July, 12:09

Of the beads in a box, 3/4 are yellow. Of the remainder, 25% are blue beads and the rest are red beads. There are 15 more red beads than blue beads in the box. How many yellow beads are there?

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Powell · Answer 1

15 more red beads than blue. of the remaining 25% are blue.

25% = 1/4

15 divided by the remaining three quarters is 5. which means that each quarter is 5 beads in the remaining 25%.

red beads: 15

blue beads 5 25% of beads is 20.

20 multiplied by the 3 quarters left is 60.

there is a total of 60 yellow beads