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1) If Bennett has 5 pets, 2 cats and 3 dogs, and he adopts more pets

so that now he has 20 pets. How many are cats and how many
are dogs?

User Sandeep Kanabar
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Answer:

Ben has 8 cats and 12 dogs.

Explanation:

If you take 2 and 3 and turn it into the ratio 2:3, and guess and check, 2:3 is equivalent to 8:12, because you multiplied each digit by four.

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