Keith has a bag of skittles. he is trying to get jashawn to figer out how many skittles are in his bag. there are 16 red. 25% of the bag is orange. 1/8 of the skittles are yellow. tge rest of the skittles are green. if 2/5 of the bag is red, how many skittles are in the bag? how many skittles are orange? how many of the skittles are green?

Total number of skittles in bag are 40

There are 10 orange skittles.

There are are 9 green skittles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Suppose there are "x" number of skittles in the bag.

Given that 2/5 of x = 16

Solving above equations gives , x = 40

That means total numbers of skittles are 40.

2/5 of 40 = 16 red skittles.

25 % of 40 = 10 orange skittles

1/8 of 40 = 5 yellow skittles

40-16-10-5 = 9 green skittles.

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