Question

A bag of sweets contains red sweets and yellow sweets. The ratio of red to yellow is 3:7. If there are 40 sweets altogether, how many yellow sweets are there?

Answer 1

Answer:

The number of yellow sweets is 28

Step-by-step explanation:

Ratio of red to yellow sweets is 3:7

Total sweet is 40

total ratio is 3 + 7 = 10

To know the total number of yellow sweet, we have

(7/10) × 40

= 0.7 × 40

= 28