Question

There is a ratio of 5 apples to 3 pears in a basket. There are 24 pears in the basket. How many apples are in the basker?

Answer 1

There are 40 apples in the basket.

This is because 5 apples to 3 pears have a difference of 1.66666667 when dividing 5 by 3 to show the ratio difference. Then, all you do is multiply this number by the number of total pears which would look like 24 x 1.66666667 = 40.

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