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?

1 Answer
Aug 26, 2015

#"7 to 17"#, #7:17#, and #7/17#

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 #a# and #b#, you can write the ratio of #a# to #b# in three ways

  • using the word to

This one is pretty straightforward; to write the ratio of #a# to #b# you can simply write

#a " to " b#

  • using the colon punctuation mark instead of to

You can write the ratio between #a# and #b# by using the colon punctuation mark, #:#

#a : b#

  • using a fraction

You can also write the ratio between #a# and #b# as a fraction, with #a#, as the numerator and #b# as the denominator

#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)#