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In one week the owner of Carly's Coffeehouse found that the number of orders for bagels was 2/3 the number of orders for chocolate scones. If the total number of orders for the two items was 525 how orders were placed for bagels?

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Answer:

  210

Step-by-step explanation:

We can write the ratio as ...

  bagels : scones = 2 : 3

Then bagels are 2/(2+3) = 2/5 of the total.

  # bagels = (2/5)(525)

  # bagels = 210

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