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► If the ratio of cars to trucks in a parking lot is 8 to 3 and there are 21 trucks, how many cars are there? I don’t know where to start I need help!! This needs to be shown full work on my college math class that’s a requirement!! Can anyone give me an explanation ASAP!!!

Answer 1

So a ratio of 8:3 means for every 8 cars that is 3 trucks so we have the number of trucks which is 21 so what i did to find the answer was see how many times 3 went into 21 which is 7 times then you would take the 7 and times it by 8 and get 56 so there are 56 cars.

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