Asap! 30 points! there are a total of 78 baseball and football cards in a box. the ratio of baseball cards to football cards 8 : 5. how many baseball cards in the box?

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

option d