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Hello, Unfortunately the book did not provide any solution. Hence I have no I was correct or not. Can someone show me how it is done please. thanks.
Local kennel has cats and dogs in the ratio of 5:6. If there are 18 fewer cats than dogs, how many dogs are in the kennel?
A. 60
B. 74
C. 98
D. 108
E. 132
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Can anyone help me with this problem. Would greatly appropriate it.
The local kennel has cats and dogs in the ratio of 5:6. If there are 18 fewer cats than dogs, how many dogs are in the kennel?
A. 60
B. 74
C. 98
D. 108
E. 132
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Lets work with the data given to us. We know that there ratio of cats to dogs is 5:6 or
cats 5
dogs 6
we can write number of cats as 5x and number of dogs as 6x and we know that 6x-5x= 18 (therefore x = 18)
Then # of dogs = 6x18= 108 Answer is D
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