I don't think to many Jem Hedar ships were taken out but a whole bunch Cardasian ships were. In DS9 we see the Klingons constantly pounding the Cardasians as well which was one of the reasons Dukat got the Dominion involved in the first place. In the Next Generation we saw that at least Galaxies were able to top any Cardasian ship and the manner of talk was that at least in some ways Starfleet had superior technology to them.
But it was also the the Jem Hedar and the Cardasians. It was just the Klingons and the Federation at this point in the series, the Romulans weren't involved as of yet. In the episode before sacrifice Dukat stated he was pulling enough ships to crush them so I think Dukat saw how many ships were headed that way and pulled double the amount for them. It didn't look like there were even 100 when they arrived however I think that the Klingons had about 600 to evenly match the Starfleet numbers. So an arbitrary mixture of the above models can be postulated, and the number of Klingon ships chosen exactly as one pleases. It appears that the ships did not fight duels that Starfleet ships in average indeed were better than the smallest Dominion ships, although probably inferior to the bigger ones and that a melee did take place, but without chance of significant concentration of fire, of "destruction in detail" tactics or other such factors. In which case 200 Starfleet ships left might indicate 1,100 Dominion ones left, and some 900 Klingons would be needed to make a difference. However, in melee battles like that, a combatant gaining a slight upper hand would typically be able to concentrate fire to quickly eliminate one opposing ship, leaving a greater ratio of ships to overpower the next victim, and again a greater ratio to deal with the next, and the next - until the initial underdog would be losing ships at an exponential rate, and the top dog would suffer virtually no losses. This would be true only if the individual ships of Starfleet were twice as good as the individual ships of the Dominion. If they damaged each other in constant ratio, though, there could be 200 Starfleet but just 400 Dominion ships left, in which case just 200 Klingons would turn the tide. This would probably be true if all ships fought duels rather than group actions. If both the original combatants managed to whittle away each other's strength equally, then it might be that there would be 200 Starfleet and 800 Dominion ships left - in which case 600 Klingons might be needed.
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