A pet shop sells mice, rats and gerbils. The ratio of mice to rats is 4:3 and the ratio of mice to gerbils is 7:4. If there are 32 gerbils in stock at present, how many rats are there? Please could you explain your working out.

Answer:

42 rats.

Step-by-step explanation:

since the ratio of mice to gerbils is 7:4, given that there are 32 gerbils, that means 32/4=8 gerbils; in other words, 56mice:32gerbils. Then, to find the # of rats, the ratio is 4:3, so you take the previous value of the # of mice and divide it by 4 to get 14(3)= 42

To understand this question, we need to know what it's asking and what's important and what is not important. Many people skip this step, but it is very important.

It is asking us to Find how many Rats there are.

This problem is defiantly reduced to the simplistic ratio

The next step is to Find clues

The clues are 32 Gerbils, 7:4 and 4:3

Now i like to make a chart but you may skip this step if you want

Gerbils=32

Mice=??

Rats=??

First, we have to find the numbers of Mice.

(Reducing Ratios divide them by a number like 2:4=1:2)

If you have 32 Gerbils and you reduced it to 4, what did you dived?

32/4=8

So, you multiply 7x8=56

There is 56 Mice.

Our table looks like this

Gerbils=32

Mice=56

Rats=??

Now we use the ratio 4:3 to find the numbers of Rats

If there are 56 mice, and it is reduced to 4, we have to do 56/4 to find out what we have to multiply 3 by to get the total numbers of rats (Inverse Operation) by. We get 14.

So now we do 3x14 in which we get 42.

Our chart now looks like this

Gerbils=32

Mice=56

Rats=42

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Which relationships have the same constant of proportionality between y and x as the following table?
y
4
32
7
56
8 64
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GOLD IN THE SKY
By Alan E. Nourse

Chapter 1. Trouble Times Two

The sun was glowing dull red as it slipped down behind the curving horizon of Mars, but Gregory Hunter was not able to see it.

There was no viewscreen in the ship's cabin; it was too tiny for that. Greg twisted around in the cockpit that had been built just big enough to hold him, and shifted his long legs against the brace-webbing, trying to get them comfortable.

He knew he was afraid ... but nobody else knew that, not even the captain waiting at the control board on the satellite, and in spite of the fear Greg Hunter would not have traded places at this moment with anyone else in the universe.

He had worked too hard and waited too long for this moment.

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"All set, Greg?" It was the captain's voice in the earphones.

"All set, Captain."

"You understand the program?"

Greg nodded. "24 hours out, 24 hours back, 90 degrees to the ecliptic1, and all the acceleration2 I can stand both ways."

Greg grinned to himself. He thought of the months of conditioning he had gone through to prepare for this run ... the hours in the centrifuge to build up his tolerance to acceleration, the careful diet, the rigorous hours of physical conditioning. It was only one experiment, one tiny step in the work that could someday give men the stars, but to Gregory Hunter at this moment it was everything.

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But not yet. It was speed they wanted; they had to know how much acceleration a man could take for how long and still survive, and now it was up to him to show them.

Fleetingly, he thought of Tom ... poor old stick-in-the-mud Tom, working away in his grubby little Mars-bound laboratory, watching bacteria grow. Tom could never have qualified for a job like this. Tom couldn't even go into free-fall for 10 minutes without getting sick all over the place. Greg felt a surge of pity for his brother, and then a twinge of malicious anticipation. Wait until Tom heard the reports on this run! It was all right to spend your time poking around with bottles and test tubes if you couldn't do anything else, but it took something special to pilot an XP ship for Project Star-Jump. And after this run was over, even Tom would have to admit it....

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Something was wrong. He hadn't pushed the cut-off button, yet the ship's engines were suddenly silent. He jabbed at the power switch. Nothing happened. Then the side-jets sputted, and he was slammed sideways into the cot.

He snapped on the radio speaker. "Control ... can you hear me? Something's gone wrong out here...."

1The great circle that is the apparent path of the Sun.

2The process of moving faster or happening more quickly.

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How does this story create a feeling of tension or conflict?

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