There are red cars and blue cars in the parking lot. The ratio of blue to red is 11:6 . There are 317 blue cars. How many red cars are in the parking lot? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
To find the number of red cars in the parking lot, we need to use the given ratio and the number of blue cars.
First, let's calculate the total number of cars in the parking lot.
Since the ratio of blue to red cars is 11:6, we can assume that the total ratio is 11 + 6 = 17.
We know that there are 317 blue cars, which corresponds to 11 parts of the ratio.
To find out how many cars are represented by each part, we divide 317 by 11:
317 / 11 = 28.82 (rounded to two decimal places)
So, each part of the ratio represents approximately 28.82 cars.
To find the number of red cars, we multiply the number of parts for red cars by the value of each part:
6 parts * 28.82 cars/part = 172.92 (rounded to two decimal places)
Rounding the answer to the nearest whole number, we get approximately 173 red cars in the parking lot.