In a bouquet of flowers, there are 7 daisies and 17 roses. How do you write the ratio of daisies to roses in three different ways?
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Explanation:
A ratio is simply a way of comparing two quantities. In essence, a ratio between two numbers will tell you how much bigger one of the numbers is compared with the other.
For two numbers
- using the word to
This one is pretty straightforward; to write the ratio of
#a " to " b#
- using the colon punctuation mark instead of to
You can write the ratio between
#a : b#
- using a fraction
You can also write the ratio between
#a/b#
So, your bouquet of flowers contains 7 daisies and 17 roses. You can thus write the ratio of daisies to roses like this
#"daisies to roses"-> color(green)("7 to 17")#
#"daisies to roses"-> color(green)(7:17)#
#"daisies to roses" -> color(green)(7/17)#