8 Skittles come in colors of red, orange, green, purple, and yellow. A snack size bag of skittles has 4 red candies out of a total of 15 pieces. How many skittles would you expect to be red if you buy a bag containing 273 pieces? 7
You use the bowtie method to get the answer for this problem. This is where you do 4/15 and x/273. You multiply 4 by 273 and x by 15. Resulting in the answers 1092 and 15x. To find the value of x, you divide 1092 by 15. and get 72.8. I rounded up to 73.
