The ratio of birds to fish is 4 to 5 is there a 18 fish how many birds are there?

Nellz asked Jul 21, 2023

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Solution

For this case we have the following ratio:

birds to fish = 4 to 5

And if we have 18 fish we want to find the number of birds

We can create this relationship:

Solving for x we got:

$x=18\cdot(4)/(5)=(72)/(5)$

Eck answered Jul 27, 2023

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