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  • 26-02-2017
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Two children share out 96 sweets in the ration 5:7. Calculate how many sweets each child will receive.

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  • 26-02-2017
You can think of it like this: 5x+7x=96 (x is some number that we're multiplying the ratio by)

12x=96
x=8

So one child has 40 and one has 56
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