Lynn has a box of crayons. 4/9 of the crayons are blue
65% of the remaining crayons are red.
The other 14 crayons are yellow.
How many crayons are in the box altogether?

There are 72 crayons in the box

Step-by-step explanation:

Fractions

To solve this problem we'll manage numbers as fractions to keep the precision up to the end of it.

Lynn has a box of crayons. It's given 4/9 of the crayons are blue. The remaining crayons are:

From that portion, 65% are red, or equivalently, 35% are yellow.

We write 35% as a fraction:

Thus, the portion of yellow crayons is:

This fraction of x crayons is equal to 14, thus:

x = 72

There are 72 crayons in the box

25% is the answer

step-by-step explanation:

step 1: solve one of the equations for one of the variables. let's solve the first equation for y:

step 2: substitute that equation into the other equation, and solve for x.

step 3: substitute x = 4 x = 4 x=4 into one of the original equations, and solve for y.