An animal shelter has cats and dogs available for adoption in a ratio of 3:5 . If there are 25 dogs available for adoption, how many cats are available? Use a tape diagram to help organize your thinking.(1 point) cats

Answer 1

Let's start by representing the number of cats and dogs available using a tape diagram.

We know that the ratio of cats to dogs available for adoption is 3:5. So, we can divide our tape diagram into 3 parts for cats and 5 parts for dogs.

Since we are given that there are 25 dogs available, we can fill in 5 parts of the tape diagram to represent the dogs.

Dogs: |---|---|---|---|---|

Now, we need to figure out how many parts represent one cat. This can be found by dividing the number of parts for dogs (5) by the ratio of cats to dogs (3:5).

So, 5 divided by 5 equals 1.

Now that we know one part represents one cat, we can fill in the tape diagram accordingly.

Dogs: |---|---|---|---|---|
Cats: |-|-|-|

Therefore, there are a total of 3 cats available for adoption.