A clothing store has pants and shorts for sale in a ratio of 4:3. If there are a total of 70 pants and shorts available for sale, how many of those are shorts?
A 10 shorts
B 30 shorts
C 21 shorts
D 40 shorts
The ratio of pants to shorts is 4:3, which means that for every 4 pants, there are 3 shorts.
Let's let x represent the number of times the ratio occurs in 70 total items.
So there are 4x pants and 3x shorts in total.
The sum of pants and shorts is 4x + 3x = 7x.
We are given that the total number of items is 70, so 7x = 70.
Dividing both sides by 7, we find that x = 10.
Therefore, there are 3x shorts = 3 * 10 = <<3*10=30>>30 shorts available for sale.
The answer is B) 30 shorts.