John has both apples and bananas. The ratio of apples to bananas is 2 to 5. If there are 6 more bananas than apples, how many bananas are there?
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A) 8 B) 10 C) 12 D) 14 E) 16
Let B be the number of bananas, and A be the number of apples.   Since the ratio of A to B is 2 to 5, that means that A = 2/5B.   We also know that A = B-6. Therefore we can substitute:   10-6 = 2/510   Now we can solve for 10:   If we isolate 10, we see that:   3/510 = 6   And so   10 = 10
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John has both apples and bananas. The ratio of apples to bananas is 2 to 5. If there are 6 more bananas than apples, how many bananas are there?