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A herd of 52 horses has 12 white and some black horses. What is the ration of white to black horses?

User Guy Yafe
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Answer: 12:40


Step-by-step explanation: since there are 12 white horses and the rest are black so 52-12= 40

User Jose Orihuela
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Hello,

The correct answer is 40.

There are 52 horses in total and 12 of them are white. 52 - 12 = 40

There are a total of 40 black horses.

Hope this helps!!!! (:

User Nanu
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