I'm stumped with this question...

[ceramictec]

someone gave me a question to answer and I just don't have the mind today to even start to figger it out.

How can 4 red marbles make up 1/3 of a group and 3 blue marbles make up 1/4 of the same group??


thanks

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[bbcamp]

If the group of marbles is 12 and there are 5 marbles of any color but red or blue.

[kwangtzu]

the group also has 5 yellow (or any other) colored marbles. 12 marbles total 4=1/3, 3=1/4

I got beat!

[ceramictec]

thanks guys. that's what I was thinking after I posted it. 5 more making a group of 12.

with the question they make you think it had to be just those marbles, guess you have to think outside the box.

[opiethetileman]

how many marbles make up ur brain. ALOT

[Dave Taylor]

I've lost my marbles.

[kate42]

:wave:

I've lost my marbles.

Me too. :cry:


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[ceramictec]

it gets worse, this was a question for my brothers 9 yr old kid in class.....lol

he couldn't get it either.
I was over in Daytona at Bike Week smelling all the race gas at the track.

:uhh:

[bbcamp]

Let X equal the total number of marbles. Since the blue marbles is 1/3 of the total, then 4 = X/3. Solve for X: 4x3 = X = 12. Do the same for red: 3 = X/4, X = 12.

[ceramictec]

he didn't say anything about no X ! haha

[John Corley]

If I keep spending so much time here wunderin bout marbles I will soon have an X.... :twitch:

[kate42]

Where is Y? :shrug:

:D

[bbcamp]

Why? Why not? :twitch:

[opiethetileman]

where is =. Oh yeah thats right its rite over at the mental counter = ing your crazy

[Rd Tile]

How do you divide up 5 apples evenly among 6 people? :uhh:

[bbcamp]

Cut each apple into 6 equal pieces and give each person 5.

[Rd Tile]

Nah, make applesauce.:)

[Lazarus]

Applesauce!

[opiethetileman]

or make apple grout