Coloured Balls

[Dee-M-See]

A box contains 56 coloured Balls
There are 3 times as many Yellow Balls as Blue Balls
There are 4 times as many Green Balls as Blue Balls
And there are Twice as many Green Balls as Yellow Balls
How many Yellow Balls are ther in the Box?

[MatydaLover]

As stated, the question is wrong ...

1) Y = 3B,
2) G = 4B,
3) G = 2Y.

Therefore, from 2) and 3), 2Y = 4B, so Y = 2B.

This contradicts 1).

[sddsddean]

Beat me to it! The question is wrong.

[MatydaLover]

Actually, it might be worse than wrong. Always, when given such a problem one checks it's reasonable before wasting one's time on it.

In this question, the bleeding obvious make one smell a rat - there are 4 equations yet only 3 unknowns

I suspect it's not just a simple typo.

I apologise now - if I'm wrong.

[Dee-M-See]

My apologys if the question is wrong but the wording is exactly as it was sent to me, if i can discover the correct version i will amend it but thank you for your answers anyway

[pjgriffo]

the answer is 11.

[Dee-M-See]

The last part of the question should read twice as many red balls as Yellow

[Catron]

Yes that makes sense now.

There are 12 yellow balls.

There are also 4 blue balls, 16 green balls and 24 red balls.