Question

A grocery store clerk put only packages of glazed

donuts and packages of chocolate donuts on a
shelf. The ratio of the number of packages of
chocolate donuts to the total number of packages
on the shelf was 5 to 12. Which number could be
the number of packages of glazed donuts the clerk
put on the shelf?

A. 23 B. 18 C. 14 D. 32

Answer 1

c. 14

Explanation:

12 - 5 = 7

needs to be a multiple of 7 which 14 is