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A grocery store clerk put only packages of flour tortillas and packages of corn tortillas on the shelf. The ratio of the number of packages of corn tortillas to the total number of packages on the shelf was 7 to 16.

Which number could be the number of packages of flour tortillas the clerk put on the shelf?

A grocery store clerk put only packages of flour tortillas and packages of corn tortillas-example-1

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Answer:

32

Explanation:

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User STerrier
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Answer: 18 and 32

Step-by-step explanation: If there is a total pf 16 package and 7 of them are corn tortillas than the number of flour tortillas are 9. If it is 9 then only variables of nine could be the answer.

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