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Sammy and David were selling water bottles to raise money for new football uniforms famous or 5 water bottles for every 3 water bottles David sold together they sold 160 water bottles how many did each boy still

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In the given question, we come to know that Sammy sold 5 bottles for every 3 water bottles sold by David. In this case we get the ratio as 5:3
Now this ratio indicates that the total number of bottles can be divided into 8 parts for finding out a single part. the total number of water bottles that are sold by Sammy and David together are 160.
Now on dividing this total number of bottles by 8 we get the 20 as one part.
The,
Number of Bottles sold by Sammy = 5 * 20
= 100
Number of bottles sold by David = 3 * 20
= 60
So Sammy sold 100 water bottles and David sold 60 water bottles from the total of 160 water bottles.
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