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In Tim's Music Shop, the sales of records, tape cartridges, and cassettes form the ratio 3 : 4 : 6, respectively. In a window display of 65 items, how many of each kind should be included to match the customers' typical preferences?
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document.write( "All I can say is that your textbook is very old -- back before CDs even.  Are those tape cartridges 8-tracks?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put each of the ratio numbers 3, 4 and 6 over their sum 3+4+6 = 13 \r\n" );
document.write( "making these three fractions\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now multiply each fraction by 65\r\n" );
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document.write( "15 records, 20 tape cartridges, and 30 cassettes.    \r\n" );
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