In an animal shelter, the ratio of dogs to cats is 5 to 3. There are 25 dogs. Write and solve a proportion to find the number c of cats. Show your work.
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It would be 5/3 = 25/x 5•x equals 5x and 25•3 equals 75 so your problem should look like this at this point 5x=75 so then your next step is to divide 75 divided by 5 then your answer is x = 15