Question

it was recently estimated that domestic vehicles out numberforegin vehicles by about six to five. if there are 2673 vehicles in a county how many of them are domestic?

Answer 1

The question is an example of a ratio problem. This implies that

$\begin{gathered} \text{Domestic vehicles ratio=6} \\ \text{Foreign vehicles ratio=5} \\ Sum\text{ of vehicles ratio =5+6=11} \end{gathered}$

Therefore, le the number of domestic vehicles be x. We can say that;

$\begin{gathered} \frac{6}{11}=\frac{x}{2673} \\ 11x=16038 \\ x=\frac{16038}{11} \\ x=1458 \end{gathered}$

Answer: 1458