Question

Sweet T notice the ratio of long boards to short boards was 1:4 .If there were 35 surfboards at the beach,how many were short boards?

Answer 1

28 boards..............................................................

Explanation:

Answer 2

Okay. So for every 5 surfboards, 4 will be short, and 1 will be long. 5 goes into 35 7 times. So we need to multiply 7 x 4, which is 28.


There will be 28 short boards at the beach.