Your job is to sort and sack marbles for sale. a bag contains 120 marbles, some red and some blue. if there are 80 blue marbles, what is the ratio of red to blue marbles? a) 1: 2 b) 1: 3 c) 2: 1 d) 2: 3

Option A is correct

1 : 2 is the ratio of red to blue marbles

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of blue marbles be x and the number of red marbles be y.

As per the statement:

A bag contains 120 marbles, some red and some blue.

⇒Total number of marbles = x+y

⇒               ......[1]

It is also given that if there are 80 blue marbles.

⇒x = 80

Substitute the value of x in [1] we have;

Subtract 80 from both sides we have;

y = 40

We have to find the ratio of red to blue marbles

The ratio of red to blue marbles = = 1 : 2

Therefore, the ratio of red to blue marbles is, 1 : 2.

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,