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3 sailboats to 5 fan boatsHow many fan boats if therewere 54 sailboats?

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we can use cross multiplication


\begin{gathered} 3\text{sail}\longrightarrow5\text{fan} \\ 54\text{sail}\longrightarrow\text{xfan} \end{gathered}

where x is the number of fan boats


\begin{gathered} x=(54*5)/(3) \\ \\ x=90 \end{gathered}

the number of fan boats to 54 sailboats is 90

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