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Jackson middle school has 5 students in choir for every 1 student in band. If there are 60 students in band, how many students are in choir

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If there are 60 students in band, then there are 300 students in choir.

To find this you first need to recognize that the ratio of students in band to choir is 1:5. So if you have 60 band students, multiply 60 by 5, as the ratio suggests, to get the total number of choir students.
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