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Rosa has a chicken farm. The ratio of red to black chickens is 2 to 3. If she has a total of 20 chickens, how many are red?
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Rosa has a chicken farm. The ratio of red to black chickens is 2 to 3. If she has a total of 20 chickens, how many are red?

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the answer is 8 red chickens
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Answer: If 2 out of every 3 chickens are red, then about 13 chickens would be red. There is no whole-number answer because 20/3 cannot be simplified to a whole number.

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