Sweet T notice the ratio of long boards to short boards was 1:4. If there were 35 surfboards at the beach, how many were short boards?

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Laurel Valenzuela

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28 April, 07:51

Sweet T notice the ratio of long boards to short boards was 1:4. If there were 35 surfboards at the beach, how many were short boards?

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Brenton · Answer 1

Okay. So for every 5 surfboards, 4 will be short, and 1 will be long. 5 goes into 35 7 times. So we need to multiply 7 x 4, which is 28.

There will be 28 short boards at the beach.