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The ratio of dogs to cats in an animal shelter 3:1. If there are 56 dogs and cats in all, how many more dogs than cats are there?
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The ratio of dogs to cats in an animal shelter 3:1. If there are 56 dogs and cats in all, how many more dogs than cats are there?

User Roderic
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there are 18 cats! (well, 18.6, so you could round it up to 19...)
Step-by-step explanation:
3:1 is a fancy term for 1/3
so 56 divided by 3 is 18.66666
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