SOLUTION: The ratio of my text book and story book is 4 : 3if the number of the text book 28 lets find the numbers of story books and total numbers of books

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Question 984919: The ratio of my text book and story book is 4 : 3if the number of the text book 28 lets find the numbers of story books and total numbers of books
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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The way the description is written makes it meaningless. Even so, a proportion can be found for what you try to present. The description tries to equate 4:3 to 28:b, and you want to find this unknown b.

Say or write it like this:
The ratio of the number of my textbooks to my story books is 4:3. If the actual number of my textbooks is 28, then how many story books do I have?

4%2F3=28%2Fb

You should see the 28 cut into four equal parts, each being 7. b will satisfy the proportion if it is 21.

b=21.