Question

Mike has a collection of baseball cards and baseball figurines. If the ratio of cards to figurines is 5:7 and there are 25 cards in his collection, how many figurines does he have

Answer 1

35 figurines

Explanation:

if the ratio of cards to figurines is 5:7 and there are 25 cards, we multiply the ratio by 5 to make the 5 into a 25 and so can find out how mant figurines there are.

5*5:7*5= 25:35

so there are 35 figurines