Happy Tails Animal Shelter is having a fund-raiser. they are selling t shirts they noticed that shorts sell in a ratio of 15 puppy shirts to 21 kitten shirts if they sell 360 shirts how many are puppy shirts and how many are kitten shirts

Answer 1

To find the number of puppy shirts and kitten shirts sold, we can set up a proportion based on the given ratio:

15/21 = x/360

To solve for x (the number of puppy shirts sold), we can cross multiply:

15 * 360 = 21 * x
5400 = 21x

Dividing both sides of the equation by 21:

x = 5400/21
x ≈ 257.14

Since we can't have a fraction of a shirt, we'll round down to the nearest whole number:

x ≈ 257

Therefore, approximately 257 of the shirts sold are puppy shirts.

Now, to find the number of kitten shirts sold, we can subtract the number of puppy shirts sold from the total number of shirts sold:

360 - 257 = 103

Thus, there are approximately 103 kitten shirts sold.