5/8 of the 64 musicians in a music contest there guitarist some of the guitarist play jazz solos and the rest play classical solos the ratio of the number of guitarist playing jazz solos to the total number of guitarist in the contest is 1 to 4 how many guitarist play classical solos in the contest?

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Jefferson Barnes

31 May, 22:32

5/8 of the 64 musicians in a music contest there guitarist some of the guitarist play jazz solos and the rest play classical solos the ratio of the number of guitarist playing jazz solos to the total number of guitarist in the contest is 1 to 4 how many guitarist play classical solos in the contest?

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Landen Shaffer · Answer 1

So there are 64 * 5/8 guitarists.

That means that there are 40 guitarists.

Out of the 40, 3 out of 4 have classical solos.

So 40 * 3/4 is 30 classical solos.