Question

Ellie had 44 books in her bookcase. She counted 32 fiction books and the rest where nonfiction. What is the ratio of fiction books to nonfiction books in Ellie's bookcase?

Answer 1

First we need to work out how many from her total amount of books were nonfiction

Answer 2

Can you do this?

Answer 3

12 where nonfiction

Answer 4

Yes very good. Now we have the obvious ratio 32:12 can you think of a way to simplify this more?

Answer 5

no lol

Answer 6

Ok well in this case dividing both sides by 4 gives us a simplified version. What would this look like?

Answer 7

8:3

Answer 8

Yes that is correct! :)

Answer 9

yay!