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A teacher is writing a quiz. She wants the ratio of the number of easy questions to the total number questions to be 14:18. If the teacher wants fewer than 14 easy questions on the quiz, how many easy questions should she write?

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Answer:

7

Explanation:

just divide the ratio by 2.

User Miskender
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Answer:

7 easy questions

Explanation:

If you want to maintain the ratio while writing less than 14 easy questions, you can just divide the ratio by 2. Then you have 7 easy questions and 9 hard questions, which is still a ratio of 14:18

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