Plz plz plz at the local convenience store, bubble gum outsells non-bubble gum by a five-to-one ratio. if the store sold 276 pieces of gum today, how many of them were pieces of non-bubble gum?

46

sum the parts of the ratio 5 + 1 = 6

divide 276 by 6 to find 1 part of the ratio

= 46 ← 1 part

the store sold 46 non-bubble gum

and 230 bubble gum

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

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