Question

A company states that the ratio of the number of people that prefer its brand of toothpaste to the number of people tested is 8 to ten. a. Is this a part-to-part ratio or a part-to-whole ratio? b. Describe in words what the ratio means. c. What is another way to write the ratio? d. What is the simplified form?

Answer 1

please quickly!!!

Answer 2

A. Part to whole ratio - 8 out of the whole of ten people tested.

B. A ratio shows the relative size of two or more values.

C. Other ways to write a ratio: 1:4, 1/4, 0.25, 25%

D. Simplified:
\[8\over10\]
\[4\over5\]

Answer 3

thats the answer?

Answer 4

just making sure!

Answer 5

There's 4 answers, one for A, B, C, and D

Answer 6

THANK YOU MAN!!! lol

Answer 7

No problem lol

Answer 8

@Pawtpie
Your answers are correct except part C.
The question is not other ways of writing _a_ ratio. The question is other ways of writing _this_ ratio.
Since the ratio is 8:10, it can be written as 4:5, \(\dfrac{4}{5} \), 80%.