Question

.A certain store is selling packages of 10 pencils and 4 pens for back to school. The store manag wants to make a larger package in the same ratio. If the large package has 10 pens, how mar pencils are in the large package?​

Answer 1

4 pencils.

Explanation:

The ratio of pencils to pens in the original package is 10:4, which means that for every 4 pens, there are 10 pencils. To find the number of pencils in the larger package, we can use this same ratio.

If the large package has 10 pens, we can set up the proportion:

x/10 = 10/4

Where x is the number of pencils in the large package. To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:

10 * 4 = x * 10

40 = x*10

x = 40/10

x = 4

So the large package contains 4 pencils.