Question

A shoes store sells three categories of shoes, Athletics, Boots and Dress shoes. The categories are stocked in the ratio of 5 to 2 to 3. If the store has 70 pairs of boots, how many shoes do they have in total?

Answer 1

350 pairs

Explanation:

If the ratio of Athletics, Boots, and Dress shoes is 5 to 2 to 3, it means that for every 2 pairs of Boots they have 5 pairs of Athletics shoes and 3 pairs of dress shoes.

So, if they have 70 pairs of boots, we can calculate the number of Athletics as:

`(5*70)/(2) =175`

And if they have 70 pairs of boots, the number of dress shoes are:

`(3*70)/(2)=105`

Finally, they have 70 pairs of boots, 175 pairs of athletics, and 105 pairs of dress shoes. It means that they have 350 pairs in total.

70 + 175 + 105 = 350