220k views
2 votes
You are downloading songs to your mp3 player. the ratio of pop songs to rock songs is 5 : 4. you download 40 pop songs. how many rock songs do you download?

User Schnabler
by
6.0k points

2 Answers

6 votes
you download 50 rock songs since if u put it as a proportion 5popsongs over 4 rock songs equals x over 40 pop songs. 4 times 10 is 40 so 5 times 10 is 50. 
User Ryan Calhoun
by
8.2k points
1 vote
32 rock songs 40/5=8  4 times 8 =32
User Tmho
by
6.3k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.