Question

A magic carpet is made with three colors of yarn. The ratio of each color in the carpet isshown below:10 meters gold yarn to 7 meters bronze yarn to 3 meters silver yarn.If the magic carpet is made with a total of 160 meters of yarn. How much silver yarn is inthe magic carpet?

Answer 1

Since this ratio of each color in the carpet is give =>

10:7:3

To get the value for the silver yarn, we can apply the formula:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{ratio\text{ of siler yarn}}{total\text{ ratio}}\text{ x Total meters} \\ \Rightarrow\text{ }\frac{3}{10\text{ +7+ 3}}\text{ x 160} \\ \Rightarrow\text{ }\frac{3}{20}\text{ x 160} \\ \Rightarrow\text{ 24 meters} \end{gathered}$