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Given the ratio 2 green to 4 pink to 3 yellow (2:4:3), in a bag of 27 jellybeans, how many yellow jellybeans are in the bag? Show your work.

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The ratio of green jelly beans to pink jelly beans to yellow jelly beans is 2:4:3.

The total number of jelly beans is equals to 27. The number of yellow jelly beans can be calculated as follows

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{yellow jelly beans = }\frac{3}{9}\times27 \\ \text{yellow jelly beans=}\frac{81}{9} \\ \text{yellow jelly beans}=9 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Number of yellow jelly beans in the bag = 9