Homework Help: Math

Posted by Bob on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 4:40pm.

in a hardware store the ratio of shovels to rake is 3:5.If there are 10 more rakes than shovels how many rakes are there in the hardware store?

Math - bobpursley, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 4:49pm
3:5::(r-10)/r

5(r-10)=3r solve for r.

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