Eric knows that 5 out of every 75 children in his school have red hair. There are 525 children in Eric's school. How many children in Eric's school have red hair?​

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Answer:

35

Step-by-step explanation:

525/75=7x5=35

The ratio remains constant, then the number of children in Eric's school who has red hair in color will be 35.

What are ratio and proportion?

A ratio is an ordered couple of numbers a and b, written as a/b where b can not equal 0. A proportion is an equation in which two ratios are set equal to each other.

Eric knows that 5 out of every 75 children in his school have red hair. There are 525 children in Eric's school.

Then the number of the children in Eric's school who has red hair will be

Let x be the number of the children. Then we have

[tex]\rm \dfrac{x}{525} = \dfrac{5}{75}\\\\x \ \ \ = \dfrac{525 \times 5}{75}\\\\x \ \ \ = 35[/tex]

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