Question

Medal for the Best Answer! Please explain your answer.

Answer 1

You were so hungry yesterday after swimming that you ate 1 1/2 sandwiches. Your best friend, who didn't swim, ate just 1/2 of a sandwich. What's the ratio of how much you ate, compared to how much your friend ate?

Answer 2

Please help..

Answer 3

hmm...let me think i will try

Answer 4

Okay

Answer 5

cant figure it out sorry

Answer 6

You ate : 1 1/2 = 1.5
She ate: 1/2 =0.5
Ratio of what YOU ate to what SHE ate is 1.5 : 0.5
However, we don't like fractions in ratios, so multiply both by two to get 3:1

Answer 7

What do you mean by multiply both by two?

Answer 8

ratios are identical if we multiply it by the same number.
A ratio of 10:1 is the same as 20:2 (although we do not write ratios with common factors).
Think of ratios as fractions.
We can write
1.5/0.5 or 3/1 or 6/2 which all mean the same ratio/fraction.

Answer 9

Okay. So I got another way. What I did is that I just simplified the complex fractions. Meaning that I just divided 3/2 by 1/2 in which I got 3/1 or 3:1 or 3 to 1.

However, thank you @mathmate.

Answer 10

yw!