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Michelle is planting flowers in her garden. She wants the ratio of daisies to carnations to be 4 to 2. Michelle wants to plant a total of 42 flowers. How many daisies should she plant? A: 20 B: 8 C: 10 D: 5 *plz show work

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The ratio of daisies is 4 out of the total of the portions which is 2+4=6 so she should plant 4/6*42 and this gives us 28diasies
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