Question

Jennifer sold 57 pieces of art if she sold twice as many paintings as sculptures how many painting did she sell??

Answer 1

so we know she has sculptures and paintings, if she sold twice as many paintings as sculptures, that means that for every 2 paintings, she sold 1 sculpture, so the paintings and sculptures are on a 2:1 ratio.

we know she sold a total of 57, so we'll need to split 57 in a 2:1 ratio, we'll simply divide the whole amount of 57 by (2+1) and distribute accordingly.

$\bf \cfrac{paintings}{sculptures}\qquad 2:1\qquad \cfrac{2}{1}\qquad \qquad \cfrac{2\cdot \frac{57}{2+1}}{1\cdot \frac{57}{2+1}}\implies \cfrac{2\cdot 19}{1\cdot 19}\implies \cfrac{\boxed{38}}{19}$