There are only red beans and green beans in a bag the ratio of the number of red beans to the number of green beans is 5; 9 what fraction of the beans are red

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Lilah Vega

Mathematics

23 September, 07:09

There are only red beans and green beans in a bag the ratio of the number of red beans to the number of green beans is 5; 9 what fraction of the beans are red

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Janiya Ross · Answer 1

The fraction is 5/9 so red would be 5

Soren Walls · Answer 2

Let the red beans be 5x and green beans be 9x

Then,

total beans = 5x + 9x = 14x

∴ The fraction of beans that are red = No. of red beans / Total beans

= 5x/14x

= 5/14