Question #22a8b
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1:1 =
Explanation:
A 1:1 ratio can be written as
However,
You are correct when you say 1:1 =
This question points out how the ideas of ratios can be misleading.
The ratio
Explanation:
The ratio
For every
For every
For every dog there is a cat.
To extrapolate from the above, it means for every
But now someone wants to know how many animals are dogs if there are
Looking at the above examples where all values are equal to each other, it makes sense to simply divide the
And there is the
When working with ratios what we are really doing is summing the terms of the ratio then dividing the total quantity by each term over the sum.
So for a
Now we can try the situation where the ratio is changed to
For a
Does anybody want a cat?