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  • 13-01-2015
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A buffet offers ranch or caesar dresing. The ratio of ranck dressing used to caesar dressing used is 8 : 3. If the buffet uses 72 cases of ranch dressing,
how many cases of caesar do they use?

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ps1596 ps1596
  • 13-01-2015
set up a proportion:

8/3 = 72/x

cross multiply then simplify
8/3 = 72/x --> 8x=216 --> divide by 8 --> x= 27 caesars
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