44 boots sold in total:
24 football boots
8 rugby boots
12 hiking boots
Work:
You are given the ratio between football, rugby, and hiking sales.
For every 6 football boot sales, there are 2 rugby boot sales and 3 hiking boot sales.
You are told that 24 football boots were sold.
Look back at the ratio given. The rugby boots sold is a third of the football boots (6/3 = 2). So, there were 24/3=8 rugby boots sold here.
The number of hiking boots sold is half of the number of football boots (6/2=3). If 24 football boots were sold, there were 24/2=12 hiking boots sold.