A) Please help, In the town of blueston, there are 6 brown houses for every 8 blue houses. What is the ratio of brown houses to blue houses in blueston? b) If there are 480 blue houses in blueston, how many brown houses are there?
c) what is the value of the ratio of brown houses to blue houses?

7777

Step-by-step explanation:

do 480x 6/8

A. 6:8 or 3:4

B. 360 brown houses + 480 blues is 840 in total.

6:8

x:480

x=360 because 8 x 60 = 480 & 60x6=360.

C. 0.43

6:8 is simplified to 3:4.

Brown is 3/7 = 0.43

Blue is 4/7 = 0.57

(3+4=7)

Hope this helps!

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step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b