ashwaqb97 ashwaqb97
  • 10-03-2017
  • Mathematics
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the ratio of stars to stripes is 50 to 13. if there were 400 stars in the paradehow many stripes were there

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trombonebookworm
trombonebookworm trombonebookworm
  • 10-03-2017
You can solve this with a proportion:
50:13=400:x
50x=5200
x=104

There were 104 stripes
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dory123 dory123
  • 10-03-2017
it would be 104 stripes because since you multiplies 50 by 8 to get 400, then you need to do the same on the other side. So multiply 13 by 4 to get 104 stripes
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