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  • 10-04-2018
  • Mathematics
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at a pet store the ratio of cats to dogs sold was 2:1. if there were 16 cats that were sold how many dogs were sold?

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prestonshelton
prestonshelton prestonshelton
  • 10-04-2018
Hello!

Since the ration is 2 cat for 1 dog that means that for every 2 cats sold 1 dog is sold

This just means that the amount of dogs sold is half the amount of cats sold

You can do 16/2 to get the answer of 8

The answer is 8

Hope this helps!
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