Question

A short necklace has 32 gold beads and 8 black beads.

A long necklace has a total of 60beads.
Both necklaces have the same ratio of gold beads to black beads
How many black beads are on the long necklace?

Answer 1

i think there are 12
so there are 40 beads on the short one
and 60 on the long one so i multiplied 8*1.5 and got 12