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Please helpppp! a recent survey of 200 pet owners reveals that the ratio of cat owners to dog owners is 5 to 3.if there are 20,000 registered cat owners,how many dog owners are there?
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a recent survey of 200 pet owners reveals that the ratio of cat owners to dog owners is 5 to 3.if there are 20,000 registered cat owners,how many dog owners are there?

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You just use a simple proportion

5 / 3 = 20000 / x
This becomes 5x = 20000 * 3
Which becomes 5x = 60000, which means that x = 60000/5,
So x= 12000.

This means that if there are 20000 cat owners, there are 12000 dog owners.
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