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nanci has a large fish tank that contains fish. The ratio of orange fish to black fish is 5:8. If nanci has a total of 20 orange fish, then how many black fish are inn the tank?

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Answer:

32 black fish

Step-by-step explanation:

1. set up a ratio

[tex]\frac{5}{8} = \frac{20}{?}[/tex]

2. we know that we have to multiply by 4 to get from 5 orange fish to 20 orange fish. Therefore we multiply the 8 black fish by 4 as well to get 32 black fish

[tex]\frac{5}{8} =\frac{20}{32}[/tex]

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