Answer: There are 36 cows for 48 donkeys.
We are given the following information:
- The ratio of cow to donkey's is 3 to 4
- There are 48 donkeys
We have to find
- How many cows based off the ratio.
Since the ratio is 3:4, it means that for every 3 cows there are four donkeys.
We would set up the path to our answer like this:
Through the wonders that is mental math, we can recognize that 48 is divisible by 12 4 times. Implying that is the answer we need to multiply by 3 in order to get our missing ratio'ed number of cows.
We then arrive at 36.
