In one week, Kean ate a total of 8 ounces of grains at breakfast, fourteen ounces of grains at lunch, and sixteen ounces of grains at dinner. Which of the following shows a simplified ratio of his servings of grain at breakfast to his servings of grain at lunch?
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In one week, Kean ate a total of 8 ounces of grains at breakfast, fourteen ounces of grains at lunch, and sixteen ounces of grains at dinner. Which of the following shows a simplified ratio of his servings of grain at breakfast to his servings of grain at lunch?
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anonymous · Answer

So the question isn't asking anything about dinner at all, so that brings you down to just breakfast and lunch. So your answer would be breakfast/lunch. He at 8 oz. at breakfast and 14 at lunch. So it would be 8/14. Then you can simplify by dividing the two numbers by a common denominator.

anonymous · Answer

Which would give me 4/7

anonymous · Answer

Yep! That's correct! If it's not then I'm sorry but yes I'm pretty sure that's right. :) haha