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An animal shelter wants their ratio of dogs to cats to be 3:2. If the animal shelter has 78 dogs, how many cats should they have? 26 cats 156 cats 52 cats 117 cats
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An animal shelter wants their ratio of dogs to cats to be 3:2. If the animal shelter has 78 dogs, how many cats should they have?

26 cats

156 cats

52 cats

117 cats

User Salvador Dali
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The simplest way to do this is to set up equivalent fractions. So, you'd do:


(3)/(2) =
(78)/(x) and then solve for x.

x=52
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