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Aditya sent us a very well explained solution to this problem:
Tim has $50$% blue, $35$% red, $10$% white and $5$% union jacks.
Beth has $40$% blue, $32$% red, $20$% white and $8$% union jacks.In fractions, this is:
T = $\frac{1}{2}$ blue, $\frac{7}{20}$red, $\frac{1}{10}$ white & $\frac{1}{20}$ union jack.
= $\frac{10}{20}$ blue, $\frac{7}{20}$ red, $\frac{2}{20}$ white and $\frac{1}{20}$ union jacks.
Therefore Tim has $20$ flags .
B = $\frac{2}{5}$ blue, $\frac{8}{25}$ red, $\frac{1}{5}$ white & 2/25 $\frac{2}{25}$ union jacks.
= $\frac{10}{25}$ blue, $\frac{8}{25}$ red, $\frac{5}{25}$ white and $\frac{2}{25}$ union jacks.
Therefore Beth has $25$ flags .Now, we know that Beth has more flags than Tim. Beth has one more red flag, and both have the same number of blue flags. Between them, they have $3$ union jacks.
Tim | Beth |
8 | 2 |
6 | 4 |
4 | 6 |
2 | 8 |
Tim | Beth | Tim has this number of flags | Beth has this number of flags | Total number of flags |
8 | 2 | 160 | 25 | 185 |
6 | 4 | 120 | 50 | 170 |
4 | 6 | 80 | 75 | 155 |
2 | 8 | 40 | 100 | 140 |
A political commentator summed up an election result. Given that there were just four candidates and that the figures quoted were exact find the number of votes polled for each candidate.
Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?