Question

In August Paige’s clothing store sold 520 shirts with the ratio of short sleeve to long sleeve being 5:8. How many short sleeve shirts were sold. Show in a tape diagram

Answer 1

140 short sleeve 380 long sleeve

ss- short sleeve
ls- long sleeve
____________
ss l__l__|__|__|__l
=140 5
_______________
ls l__|__|__|__|__|__|
_____
l__|__| =380 8