SOLUTION: if a ratio of buses to trucks is 5:3, and then k buses arrive to make the ratio 9:5, find in terms of k, the total number of trucks and buses present

Question 1146633: if a ratio of buses to trucks is 5:3, and then k buses arrive to make the ratio 9:5, find in terms of k, the total number of trucks and buses present

Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Those are the original quantities, before the k buses arrived.

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If you want to answer question:
find in terms of k, the total number of trucks and buses present?

This will include the k vehicles which arrived.

-------and you can simplify this.
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