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A store manager orders T-shirts so that 15 out of every 35 are a medium. How many medium T shirts would you expect to find when there are 126 T shirts on a rack

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15/35 = x/126

use cross multiplication to get 35x=126(15)
35x=1890 x=1890/35

x=54

54 medium shirts
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