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A vendor sold 72 hotdogs and hamburgers during a football game if the ratio of hotdogs to hamburgers sold was 8:1 how many of each food did vendor sell?

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\bf \cfrac{hotdogs}{hamburgers}\qquad 8:1\qquad \cfrac{8}{1}\qquad \cfrac{8\cdot (72)/(8+1)}{1\cdot (72)/(8+1)}\implies \cfrac{8\cdot 8}{1\cdot 8}\implies \cfrac{64}{8}
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