Question

Matt is ordering basketball jerseys For his country's league. Last year he ordered 512 jerseys. 64 those jerseys were orange. If he ordered 600 jerseys this year, how many of them will be Orange if the ratio of orange jerseys to all the jerseys remain the same? Round to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

75

Explanation:

Step 1

Matt is ordering basketball jerseys For his country's league. Last year he ordered 512 jerseys. 64 those jerseys were orange.

The ratio of all Jerseys to Jerseys that are Orange =

512 : 64

8 : 1

Step 2

If he ordered 600 jerseys this year, how many of them will be Orange if the ratio of orange jerseys to all the jerseys remain the same?

Since we are maintaining the ratio in step 1

Let the number of orange jerseys = x

600 : x = 8 : 1

Hence

600/x = 8/1

Cross Multiply

8 × x = 600 × 1

8x = 600

x = 600/8

x = 75

Therefore, this year, the number of orange jerseys = 75