Question

A fish lays brown eggs or white eggs and it likes to lay them in a certain pattern. If each brown egg is surrounded by six white eggs, how many brown eggs are there if there are 3 brown eggs and 14 white eggs?

Answer 1

You need ratio to solve this problem e.g
X:Y
First add X+Y=Z
Dive X by Z and Y by Z
To check if your new ratio is right multiply your new answers by the letter they fall under