Jasmine filled her bag with 12 strawberries. George filled his bag with 6 times as many strawberries as jasmine. How many strawberries are in George’s bag?

Since Jasmine has 12 strawberries and George has 6 times has many, you can multiply 12 by 6 to get the number of strawberries George has in his bag.

6 x 12 = 72.

George has 72 strawberries in his bag

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step-by-step explanation:

we have three similar triangles, because each has a right angle and shares an angle.   let's write the angles in order: opposite to short leg, long leg, hypotenuse.

cab similar to bad similar to cbd

or as ratios,

ca: ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

we also know

ac = ad + cd

(ad+cd): ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

(ad+cd)/cb=cb/cd

we have cb=6, ad=5 and seek x=cd.

we reject the negative root and conclude x=4

answer: 4