The ratio of the number of skiers who bought season passes to the number of snowboarders is 9: 6. if a total of 225 people bought season passes, how many snowboarders bought season passes?

  90

Step-by-step explanation:

The total number of "ratio units" is 9+6 = 15, so each one must stand for 225/15 = 15 people. Then 6·15 = 90 people were snowboarders who bought season passes.

answer

d. 10

explanation

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using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

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take positive square root of both sides to get,

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