SOLUTION: at a baseball game, the ratio of barons fans to blue sox fans is 8:3. If you know that 22,000 people are attending the game, how many buue sox fans are there?

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Question 427217: at a baseball game, the ratio of barons fans to blue sox fans is 8:3. If you know that 22,000 people are attending the game, how many buue sox fans are there?
Answer by rfer(16322) About Me  (Show Source):
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8x+3x=22000
11x=22000
x=2000
3x=6,000
8x=16,000