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Review: Ratio of Profits
Explanation
Ratios can be thought of as containing an unknown that
represents in the multiple of the ratio. So, since these profits are in the ratio
of 47:1:2, we can represent their total profit as 
,
where n is an integer. That means
that 
,
so 
.
We are looking for the profit from Product C, and that's 
.
The correct answer is (D).
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