Question

In a car lot, the ratio of the number of new cars to the number of preowned cars is 6 to 5. The total number of new and preowned cars on the lot is 66. If 4 new cars and 2 preowned cars are sold and are removed from the lot, what fraction of the remaining cars on the lot are preowned?

Answer 1

So the lot has (6/(6+5))*100 percent of new cars and 66*(6/11)*100 percent = 36 new cars before the sale, hence 66-36 =30 preowned cars before sale. After the sale it’s 32 new cars and 28 preowned so 32/28 makes it 8/7