Question

5. A jewelry box has 10items. Of those, half arenecklaces. Two-fifths of theothers are bracelets. Therest are rings. How manyrings are there?

Answer 1

In the box there are 10 items.

> Half of them are necklaces

> Two-fifths of the other are bracelets

The rest are rings, i.e. three-fifths.

First divide the total items by two to determine how many necklaces you have:

$\frac{10}{2}=5$

10/2=5

You have 5 necklaces, and the other 5 items are rings and bracelets.

2/5 are bracelets

3/5 are rings

Multiply them by the total of items and you get that:

$5\cdot\frac{2}{5}=2$

5*(2/5)=2

You have two bracelets

$5\cdot\frac{3}{5}=3$

5*(3/5)=3

You have three rings.

The jewlery box has 5 nacklaces, 2 bracelets and 3 rings.