Question

Eighty senators voted on a bill to allow unttended pets to enter supermarkets and shop for their own

food. The bill passed by a ratio of 7 to 3.
How many voted for the bill? (in favor of the bill)
Please help me

Answer 1

56 senators

Explanation:

If the bill passed 7 to 3 then 7 out of every 10 senators voted to pass the bill. You can write this as 7/10. You are trying to find how many senators out of 80 voted to pass the bill. You can write this as x/80. To solve it, you set them equal and solve for x.

`(7)/(10)`=
`(x)/(80)` Multiply both sides by 80 to get:

80*
`(7)/(10)`=x Multiply 80 and 7/10 to get:

56=x

Sorry about the weird formatting on the fractions