SOLUTION: A new parking lot has spaces for 450 cars. The ratio of spaces for fullsizes cars to compact cars is 11 to 4. hhow many spaces are for full-sized cars? How many spaces are for comp

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: A new parking lot has spaces for 450 cars. The ratio of spaces for fullsizes cars to compact cars is 11 to 4. hhow many spaces are for full-sized cars? How many spaces are for compact cars?
k what you are suppose to do is write a linear equation and solve it. I am smart lol i just cant do word problems well! lol please help me! This question is from textbook Pretice hall mathematics. Algebra 1

Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
11:4 means out of 11+4=15 parking spaces 4 will be for compacts and 11 will be for full sized cars.
450/15=30
30*4=120 compact spaces.
30*11=330 big car spaces.
Work on these word problems!! They are what makes math fun.
What other course lets you play with puzzles every day?
Ed
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