Leanna bought a bag of marbles 38 of the marbles were green

Leanna bought a bag of marbles. 3/8 of the marbles were green. 1/5 of the remaining marbles were red. If there were 6 red marbles, how many marbles were in the bag altogether? Show work.

Solution

Let x be the total no of marbles. Then (3/8)x are green and (1/5)(5/8)x are red.

And no of red marbles is given as 6 then x = 6*8 = 48.

So the total no of Red marbles were 48.