The ratio of black bags to blue bags is 5 to 3. if there are a total of 185 black bags, then how many blue bags are there?

There are 111 blue bags

Step-by-step explanation:

Let

x ----> the number of black bags

y ---> the number of blue bags

we know that

isolate the variable y

-----> equation A

----> equation B

substitute equation B in equation A

therefore

There are 111 blue bags

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

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