Question

2) In August, Emily's Clothing Store sold 460 shirts with the ratio of short sleeve to long

sleeve being 3:7. How many short sleeve shirts were sold?​

Answer 1

138

Explanation:

We know that there are at least 3 short sleeved shirts and there are at least 7 long sleeved shirts. And we know it's in that ratio. So the best way to start this is to divide 460 by 7+3 to get the single unit amount of both shirts.

46 is the single unit amount. So 46 * 3 will get us our short sleeved shirts:

46 * 3 = 138

To check our answer, we'll take 460-138 and divide that by 7 to see if we get 46:

322/7 = 46

So the answer is correct!