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Latest revision as of 21:00, 18 October 2025
Problem
A parking lot has 
more cars than trucks. The ratio of cars to trucks is
Solution 1
Let 
be the number of trucks, and 
be the number of cars. Since there are more cars than trucks, we have:
Thus, the ratio of cars to trucks is:
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Solution 2
We can pick an easy number to find the ratio with. Let 
be the number of trucks, and let be the number of cars. Since there are more cars than trucks, we have:
Thus, the ratio of cars to trucks is
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