SOLUTION: the animal shelter has only dogs and cat's. there are 25% more dogs than cats. what percentage of the animals at the animal shelter are cats? explain your solution
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Question 372817: the animal shelter has only dogs and cat's. there are 25% more dogs than cats. what percentage of the animals at the animal shelter are cats? explain your solution
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of dogs
Let = number of cats
given:
The percentage of animals that are cats =
By substitution:
The cats are 44.44% of the animals
check:
If there were 125 dogs,
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