A pet store owner, Byron, needs to determine how much food he needs to feed the animals. Byron knows that he needs to order the

same amount of bird food as hamster food. He needs four times as much dog food as bird food and needs half the amount of cat food as dog food. If Byron orders 600 packages of animal food, how much dog food does he buy? Let b represent the number of packages of bird food Byron purchased for the pet store.

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The ratio of total members in the group stands at 5:7, meaning that among every 7 members, there are 5 men and 2 women. We can set it up as a proportion: 5:7 = x:735, leading to the equation 5/7 = x / 735. By cross-multiplying, we get 7*x = 5 * 735, simplifying to 7*x = 3675. Dividing this by 7 results in x = 525. Therefore, there will be 525 men in total.

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