Question

Haley wants to make a necklace with 24 blue beads and 32 purple beads. She wants to make a bracelet that uses the same ratio of blue beads to purple beads. She plans to use six blue beads for the bracelet. How many Purple beads should Haley use?

Answer 1

8
There are 24 blue beads and she wants to use 6. 6/24 =1/4. Therefore to get the same ratio for purple we take 32 time .25 and get 8.