Number of red pens = 24
This one of those dreadful questions where you have to have the words "more" or "less" down cold.
If the probability of an event is 3 times another event it means that there are fewer of the second item present.
Probability of Red being 3 times blue means that there are fewer blue. So you divide by 3 to get the fewer number of blues.
24 / 3 = 8 which is less than 24. Read this paragraph over a couple of times.
Green Pens are reasoned the same way.
24/4 = 6
The answer you want is 6 + 8 + 24 = 38
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