Question

The children’s section at a public library has a picture books and chapter books with a ratio of 2 to 3 if there are a total of 500 bucks in the children’s section than how many chapter books are there

Answer 1

Explanation:

picture books : chapter books = 2:3

3+2=5, so 5 parts = 500 books

chapter books is 3 parts, so 300 are chapter books, 200 are picture books