Kesha sharpened 4 colors of pencils for her teacher. She sharpened equal amounts of red and green pencils. Then she sharpened twice as many blue and yellow pencils in equal amounts. How many of the 42 pencils were yellow?

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Maren Krause

Mathematics

5 January, 17:34

Kesha sharpened 4 colors of pencils for her teacher. She sharpened equal amounts of red and green pencils. Then she sharpened twice as many blue and yellow pencils in equal amounts. How many of the 42 pencils were yellow?

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Rodney Mason · Answer 1

Variables are taken from the first letter of the color, ex: green = g.

Given:

r = g

2r = b = y

Total = 42

So then:

r + r + 2r + 2r = 42

6r = 42

r = 7

y = 2r

y = 2 (7)

14 of the 42 pencils were yellow.