A city has 4 new houses for every 8 old houses. If there are 24 new houses in the city, how many old houses are there?

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Darren Roman

Mathematics

29 April, 17:53

A city has 4 new houses for every 8 old houses. If there are 24 new houses in the city, how many old houses are there?

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Bradley Santiago · Answer 1

2 old houses

Step-by-step explanation:

4x+8x=24

12x=24

x=2

Drew Abbott · Answer 2

48 old houses

Step-by-step explanation:

First of all, every 4 new houses, there's 8 old houses. That's 4x8, therefore, if there are 8 new houses, that's 8x2, which is 16. Based on this information, this means that if there are 24 new houses, then you would have to multiply 24 by 2 to find the amount of old houses. 24x2=48. VOILA! You're done. : 3