Question

a dance team has 80 dancers.The ratio of seventh-grade dancers to all dancers is 5:16.Find the number of seventh-grade dancers on the team.​

Answer 1

Answer:

  25

Step-by-step explanation:

Each of the 16 "ratio units" representing all 80 dancers must stand for ...

  (80 dancers)/(16) = 5 dancers

Then 5 "ratio units" representing seventh-grade dancers will stand for ...

  5 × 5 dancers = 25 dancers

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Another way to figure this is to write the proportion ...

  (seventh-grade dancers)/(all dancers) = 5/16

  seventh-grade dancers = (all dancers)×(5/16) = 80×5/16

  seventh-grade dancers = 25