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A certain car lot only sells red and white cars! This month, it has a ratio of red cars to white cars of 3:2. If there are 55 cars on the lot, total, how many red cars are there?

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The ratio of red to total cars is 3:5

3/5 = x/55
5*11=55
3*11=33

Final answer: 33 red cars
User Arun V Jose
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