the ratio of fans cheering for the home team to fans cheering for the visiting team is 7/2 if there are 18,000 fans at the game how many cheering for the home team
We let the common factor between the number of fans cheering for the home team and those cheering for the visitors be x such that the equation that would show the relationship between the individual numbers and the total number is,
7x + 2x = 18000
The value of x from the equation is 2000 and the number of those cheering for the home team is 7(2000) which is equal to 14000.
