2) in august, emily's clothing store sold 460 shirts with the ratio of short sleeve to long
sleeve being 3: 7. how many short sleeve shirts were sold?

138

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that there are at least 3 short sleeved shirts and there are at least 7 long sleeved shirts. And we know it's in that ratio. So the best way to start this is to divide 460 by 7+3 to get the single unit amount of both shirts.

46 is the single unit amount. So 46 * 3 will get us our short sleeved shirts:

46 * 3 = 138

To check our answer, we'll take 460-138 and divide that by 7 to see if we get 46:

322/7 = 46

So the answer is correct!

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