Question

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 short sleeve shirts were sold.

Answer 2

Answer: There are 138 short sleeves t-shirts.

Explanation:

Given : In August Emily's clothing store sold 460 shirts with the ratio of short sleeve to long sleeve being 3:7.

Let the number of short sleeves shirts be 3x and the number of long sleeves shirts be 7x.

Then, according to the given question, we have

`7x+3x=460\\\\\Rightarrow\ 10x=460\\\\\Rightarrow\ x=46`

Now, the number of short sleeves shirt = 3(46)=138

Hence , there are 138 short sleeves shirts.