A total of 300 pine and maple trees will be planted in a park. There will be 2 pine trees planted for every 3 maple trees

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A total of 300 pine and maple trees will be planted in a park. There will be 2 pine trees planted for every 3 maple trees planted. How many pine trees and maple trees were planted?

Answer 1

Shanita,

 

 

This problem is stating that there is a 2 to 3 ratio of pine trees to maple trees. This is also saying that for every 5 trees, 2 will be pine and 3 will be maple. We divide 300 by five to get 60. One fifth of the total amount of trees is 60. Since we know2/5 trees are pine and 3/5 trees are maple, we can multiply 60 by 2 to get an answer of 120 pine trees, by default we have 180 maple.

 

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