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a total of 64 musicians entered a music contest and 5/8 of these musicians are guitarists. some of the guitarists play jazz solos,and the rest play classical solos. the ratio of the number of guitarists playing jazz solos to the total number of guitarists in the contest is 1:4 how many guitarists play classical solos in the contest. explain your reasoning.Please help.

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64 ÷ 8 = 8
8 × 5 = 40 guitarists

10 play jazz
30 play classical

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