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The raito of chocolate covered carmels to choclate corvered cherries in my vault is 5 to 2 if i have 84 choclate covereds cherries how many choclate covered caramels do i have

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Answer: 1 have 210 chocolate covered caramels

Explanation:

step 1

The ratio of chocolate covered caramels to chocolate covered cherries in my vault is 5 to 2 which can also be written as 5:2

But the number of chocolate covered cherries =84

Total ratio is given as 5+2 = 7

Step 2

such that the total number of chocolate i had would be gotten from

Ratio of chocolate covered cherries/ total ratio x Total chocolates = Number of chocolate covered cherries. Let X = Total number of chocolates

2/7 x X = 84

x= 84 x 7 / 2 =294

Therefore The number of chocolate covered caramels= ratio of chocolate covered caramels/ total ratio x Total chocolates =

5/7 X 294= 210

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