Saturday 24 October 2009

The Return of the Weekend Riddle

Use your mathematic skills to solve the following problem:

There are a mix of red, green and blue balls in a bag.

The total number of balls is 60.

There are four times as many red balls as green balls and 6 more blue balls than green balls.

How many balls of each colour are there?

6 comments:

Anna:) said...

Green=9


Red=4 times green (36)


Blue=6 more than green.(15)
_____________
All balls=6 times green+6 more=60
If you take six out it makes 54
6 times green =54
Green then=9
Red =4 times 9 which is 36

I hope it is wright it took me a long time to work it out

Bye Mr.Gray(My head is fine now)
Blue =9 + six which is 15!!:)

rebekah c said...

36 red 9 green and 15 blue

Mr Gray said...

well done guys. correct answer

rebekahc said...

hey mr Gray i know this is under the wrong thing but anyway.
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Lydia said...

Thirty six red
Nine green
Fifteen blue
Bye:)
ps I worked it out without looking at the answer

Anonymous said...

Green=9


Red=4 times green (36)


Blue=6 more than green.(15)
_____________
All balls=6 times green+6 more=60
If you take six out it makes 54
6 times green =54
Green then=9
Red =4 times 9 which is 36