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Example Question #81 : Ratio And Proportion
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #82 : Ratio And Proportion
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #243 : Numbers And Operations
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #22 : Percentage
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #85 : Numbers And Operations
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #83 : Ratio And Proportion
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #64 : Grade 6
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #84 : Ratio And Proportion
Red is a very popular car color. A production company manufactures cars and parks them in a lot behind the plant. There are
cars in the parking lot and of them are red. How many red cars are in the parking lot?
We can use ratios and proportions to solve this problem. Percentages can be written as ratios. The word “percent” means for every hundred. In the problem, we are told that
of the cars are red. In other words, for every hundred cars of them are red. We can write the following ratio:
Reduce.
We know that there are
cars in the parking lot. We can write the following ratio by substituting the variable for the number of red cars:
Now, we can create a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides of the equation by
.
Solve.
There are
red cars in the parking lot.Example Question #2 : Solving Word Problems With One Unit Conversions
A carpenter is making a model house and he buys
of crown moulding to use as accent pieces. He needs of the moulding for the house. How many feet of the material does he need to finish the model?
We can solve this problem using ratios. There are
in . We can write this relationship as the following ratio:
We know that the carpenter needs
of material to finish the house. We can write this as a ratio using the variable to substitute the amount of feet.
Now, we can solve for
by creating a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides by
.
Solve.
Reduce.
The carpenter needs
of material.Example Question #2 : Solving Word Problems With One Unit Conversion
A carpenter is making a model house and he buys
of crown moulding to use as accent pieces. He needs of the moulding for the house. How many feet of the material does he need to finish the model?
We can solve this problem using ratios. There are
in . We can write this relationship as the following ratio:
We know that the carpenter needs
of material to finish the house. We can write this as a ratio using the variable to substitute the amount of feet.
Now, we can solve for
by creating a proportion using our two ratios.
Cross multiply and solve for
.
Simplify.
Divide both sides by
.
Solve.
The carpenter needs
of material.Certified Tutor
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