in a stationary shop,pen and pencil are in ratio 4:9 .if there are 100 pens, find a number of pencil

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If you take the number of pencils as x, then the given ratio and the number of pens to pencils is proportional.

=> 4/9 = 100/x
=> x = (100/4)*9
=> x = 25*9
=> x = 175
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