How do you solve this? The ratio of two integers is 7:11. The larger integer is 187. Find the smaller integer.
1 Answer
May 2, 2017
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Explanation:
Let's introduce some variable x to illustrate something here, though it's not fully necessary.
If the ratio of the integers is 7:11, we know the ratio is 7 of something to 11 of that same thing. We can rewrite as 7x:11x.
We know the larger integer is 187, so let's set that equal to 11x.
From here, we can find the smaller integer by the following:
Alternatively, we could realize that:
Perhaps the bottom explanation is simpler, but for some reason my mind went to the top one first, so I left it there. If the top one is confusing, just ignore it
