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  • 03-08-2016
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A buffet offers ranch or caesar dressing. The ratio of ranch dressing used to caesar dressing used is 8:3. If the buffet uses 72 cases of ranch dressing, how many cases of caesar do they used?

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texaschic101
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  • 03-08-2016
8/3 = 72/x
cross multiply
8x = 72*3
8x = 216
x = 216/8
x = 27 <====27 caesar's used
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