A cell phone is 86 mm long and 30 mm wide. What is the ratio of the width to the length?
2 Answers
Ratio of width : length
Explanation:
width : length
This may also be presented as
However, the proportioning behaves like a fraction in that the top value always has the same ratio to the bottom value.
43 is a prime number so this ratio cannot be simplified any further.
So ratio width : length
The width : the length is
Explanation:
A ratio is a comparison between two or more quantities.
A ratio:
- is always in the simplest form
- does not have fractions
- does not have decimals
- does not have units ( but they must be the same)
The ratio of the width to the length of the cell phone is:
This means that for every