Homework help!! Skittles?

Question

there are 52 pieces of skittles givin.

25% cherry, 10/32 grape, .5 orange and the remainder are lemon...

How many skittles are lemon?

Answer 1

52 pieces total

25 percent cherry, so 1/4 of the total = 13 pcs

5/16 grape (I just simplified 10/32) so take 52 divided by 16 and then multiply the answer by 5 to get 5/16 which = 16.25 (i don't personally know how you get a quarter of a piece of skittle, but whatever...

.5 are orange, so that is half... = 26

26 + 13 + 16.25 =

Wait.... something is wrong here. You must have the 52 pieces wrong or something because the percentages that you have come out to more than 100%

Answer 2

.25 x 52=13 cherry      subtract the cherry 52-13=39

10/32 x 39= 390/32 or 12.1875 round this to 12 grape  39-12=27

.5 x 27=13.5 round this to 14 orange

27-14=13 lemon

check: 13+12+14+13= 52 pieces of skittles

Answer 3

Cherry = .25 x 52 = 13

Orange = half = 26

There are 13 left for lemon and grape

Something wrong with the number given for graph since 10/52 of 52 are 16  

Answer 4

.25(cherry)+.3125(grape)+.5(orange)= 1.0625

1.0625-1= -.0625

Based on the facts given, there are a negative number of lemons.

Something is wrong with them, as the cherry, grape, and orange percentages add up to be more than 100%.

Answer 5

i'd convert them all the percentages and and when you find the percentage of the lemon convert that to decimals and fractions to give a complete answer  

try this website to help convert:  

http://www.mathsisfun.com/decimal-fracti...