Respuesta :

Take 36 and divide it by 48
Photon
There are in total  36 + 12 = 48 beads.

We can write :

48 --> 100%
36 -->x %

Therefore :

[tex]x = \frac{36*100}{48} [/tex]
[tex]x = 75 [/tex]

So 75 % of the beads were purple.

Hope this helps !

Photon