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In fruit flies, red eye color (R) is dominant over brown eye color (r). Two red-eyed fruit flies were mated and they
produced the following offspring: 73 red-eyed flies; 27 brown-eyed flies. In the offspring, what is the
approximate ratio of red-eyed to brown-eyed fruit flies?
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