Question

The ratio of dogs to cats at the animal shelter is 2:5. If there are 35 cats, how many dogs are there?

Answer 1

Explanation:

there are 18 dogs

Answer 2

14

Explanation:

So the ratio of dogs (2) to cats (5) is 2:5

How did we go from 5 to 35?

Multiply by 7

So multiply 2 with 7 which is 14

So there are 14 dogs

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