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2 July, 09:43

Two children share out 96 sweets in the ration 5:7. Calculate how many sweets each child will receive.

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  1. 2 July, 09:58
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    You can think of it like this: 5x+7x=96 (x is some number that we're multiplying the ratio by)

    12x=96

    x=8

    So one child has 40 and one has 56
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