Homework Help: math

Posted by Tyler on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 5:34pm.

A group of 132 students chose baseball and soccer as their favorite sports in the ratio of 3:8. How many students chose soccer as their favorite sport?

math - Steve, Monday, January 14, 2013 at 5:48pm
to match up the students, there must be 11 in each section

132/11 = 12, so there are 12 sections

12*3:12*8 = 36:96

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