How do you multiply 80 to get 55

1: 4 if the wew 35 surfboards at the beach how many were short boards?

Michelle is planting flowers in her garden. she wants the ratio of daises to carnations to be 3 to 2. michelle wants to plant a total of 35 flowers. how many daises should she plant?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.