In a container, there are sweets of 3 colours, blue, pink and brown. There are 608 less brown sweets than pink sweets. The number of brown sweets is ¹₂ more than the blue sweets. Given that the number of brown sweets is 9% of the total number of sweets in the container, how many less blue sweets are there than pink sweets?

Blue sweets	Pink sweets	Brown sweets
	1 u + 608	1 u
2x3		3x3
91%		9%
6%	85%	9%

1 + ¹₂ = ²₂ + ¹₂ = ³₂

Yellow sweets : Purple sweets = 2 : 3

The number of brown sweets is repeated.  Make the number of brown sweets the same.

3 x 3 = 9%

Total number of blue sweets and pink sweets in percent
= 100% - 9%
= 91%

Number of pink sweets in percent
= 91% - 6%
= 85%

Number of more pink sweets than brown sweets in percent
= 85% - 6%
= 76%

76% = 608

1% = 608 ÷ 76 = 8

Number of less blue sweets than pink sweets
= 85% - 6%
= 79%
= 79 x 8
= 632

Answer(s): 632