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A bag contains 8 yellow marbles and 6 blue marbles. What number of

yellow marbles can you add to the bag so that the ratio of yellow to blue marbles is 2 : 1? help...

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User Kenshi
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You can add 4 more yellow marbles to make the ratio of yellow to blue marbles 2 to 1.


A ratio of 2 to 1 means that one of the objects have twice the amount of the other. Since blue originally had 6 marbles, simply multiply that by 2 and you should get how many yellow marbles you need in total and since you already have 8 yellow marbles, all you need is to add four.

The final ration will be

yellow : blue

12 : 6

2 : 1

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