Jared bought a package of pens containing 20 pens if 3/4 of the pens have black ink how do you determine the number of pens with black ink

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Answer:

The number of black ink pen are 15 pens.

Step-by-step explanation:

As given

Jared bought a package of pens containing 20 pens.

[tex]if\ \frac{3}{4}\ of\ the\ pens\ have\ black\ ink.[/tex]

Thus

[tex]Number\ of\ black\ ink\ pens = \frac{3}{4}\times Total\ number\ of\ pens[/tex]

Putting the value

[tex]Number\ of\ black\ ink\ pens = \frac{3}{4}\times 20[/tex]

Number of black ink pens = 3 × 5

                                          = 15 pens

Therefore the number of black ink pen are 15 pens.