the ratio of violin players to cello plays were 6 to 3. the orchestra had 8 violin players. how many musicians played the cello?

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anonymous · Answer

3 musicians played the cello which would make it 8 to 3.

anonymous · Answer

Im sorry, that is incorrect @openstudyproblemsolve .

anonymous · Answer

To solve this problem, you need to use whats given about the ration of violin players to cello players to set up a fraction. The use whats given to scale up the fraction to and find the missing value. That may sound complicated, but just start off  with |dw:1400439456153:dw|

anonymous · Answer

Oh oops would that make it one half? 1/2?

anonymous · Answer

Now you can reduce that fraction to 1/2. In words, this is, "for every cello player, there are 2 violin players."

anonymous · Answer

Do you think you can solve from there @_beautygee ?

anonymous · Answer

Oh now I get it would that means if there were 8 cello players there would be 16 violin players?

anonymous · Answer

So what we have now is, $$\frac{ 1 }{ 2 } = \frac{ x }{ 8 }$$ all that is left is to solve for x.

anonymous · Answer

Oh ok so you multiply 2 by 4 and then 1 by 4 making it 4/8 then to 1/2.