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Michelle is planting flowers in her garden. She wants the ratio of daisies to carnations to be 4 to 2. Michelle wants to plant a total of 36 flowers. How many daisies should she plant?

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She should plant 24 daisies. Multiply each side by 6 and you get 24 to 12. 24 and 12 equals 36
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Michelle wants the ratio of daisies to carnations to be 4 to 2. This means that for every 6 flowers planted, 4 are daisies, or  of the flowers are daisies.

Let d equal the total number of daisies. Then, d out of 42 of the flowers planted are daisies.

To find d, set up the following proportion and solve.

Therefore, Michelle should plant 28 daisies.

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