44 boots sold in total: 24 football boots 8 rugby boots 12 hiking boots
Work: You are given the ratio between football, rugby, and hiking sales. For every 6 football boot sales, there are 2 rugby boot sales and 3 hiking boot sales.
You are told that 24 football boots were sold. Look back at the ratio given. The rugby boots sold is a third of the football boots (6/3 = 2). So, there were 24/3=8 rugby boots sold here. The number of hiking boots sold is half of the number of football boots (6/2=3). If 24 football boots were sold, there were 24/2=12 hiking boots sold.
44 boots were sold all together. To figure this out first you need to find how many of the other boots there were. 8 rugby boots and 12 hiking boots. 8 + 12 + 24 = 44.
