SOLUTION: the wool sales for one week in New York amounted to 555,000lbs. the ratio of the domestic sales to the foreign sales was 14 to 23. What were the foreign sales?

Question 264717: the wool sales for one week in New York amounted to 555,000lbs. the ratio of the domestic sales to the foreign sales was 14 to 23. What were the foreign sales?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
domestic sales + foreign sales = total sales
Let = domestic sales
Let = foreign sales
given:

The foreign sales were $345,000
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