Question

the ratio of hopeless romantics to hard-headed skeptics was 459 to 2. if there were 7,803 hopeless romantics, how many hard-headed skeptics were there?

Answer 1

333

Explanation:

Answer 2

34 hard-headed skeptics

Explanation:

Write and solve an equation of ratios:

459 2

--------- = ----

7803 x

Cross-multipying, we get:

459x = 15606, which yields x = 15606/459 = 34

There were 34 hard-headed skeptics.