Question

In a container, there are candies of 3 colors, yellow, white and purple. There are 108 more white candies than purple candies. The number of purple candies is 1/2 more than the yellow candies. Given that the number of purple candies is 24% of the total number of candies in the container, how many more white candies are there than yellow candies?

Answer 1

200 👍 0 👎 👁 10,000 🚩

Answer 2

so, what do you know?
w = p+108
p = 3/2 y
p = .24(w+p+y)
solve, then find w-y

post your work if you get stuck

Answer 3

w = p + 108
p = y + y/2 so y = 2 p/3
p = ( 24/100)(w + y + p)

100 p = 24 w +24 y + 24 p
76 p = 24 w + 24 y
76 p = 24 (p+108) + 24(2 p/3)
76 p = 24 p + 2592 +16 p
36p = 2592
p = 72
Your turn :)

Answer 4

Yup