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in a bag of apples and oranges the ratio of apples to oranges is 4 : 3 if the bag has 70 apples and oranges how many oranges are there

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Answer:

None of them are right (maybe 52.5 or 53)

Explanation:

If we divided 4 by 3. It will be 1.333 so we will have to divide 70 by those numbers to see if it comes to 1.33333. None of them do. So we will have to multiply 70 by 1.33333 or 1 1/3 . I got 52.5 so that is the most I can help :)

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