Question

A container holds 21 spoons and 27 forks. What is the ratio of spoons to the total number of utensils in the container?


A.
7 to 9


B.
7 to 16


C.
9 to 7


D.
16 to 9

Answer 1

@Truffles

Answer 2

@uri @PaulaLovesSchool13 @S.Marie23

Answer 3

the problem says how many spoons are in the container. there are 21 spoons. We need to find out how many utensils there are all together so we need to add the number of forks and the number of spoons. THere are 27 forks and 21 spoons. So what is 21+27?

Answer 4

B. 7 to 16

Answer 5

48

Answer 6

right 48, and the ratio wants spoons to all utensils. So \[\frac{ 21 }{ 48 }\] howver, that can be reduced. What does it reduce to?

Answer 7

Perfect, so you have 48 Utensils.
Now you have 21 spoons right?
So the ration of Spoons to total utensils, is 21:48
They are both divisible by 3
You divide each terms by a common factor, or by the greatest common factor.
Now a common factor of 21 and 48 is 3
Now 7 and 16 do not have a common factor other than 1, so your ratio is good!

7:16

Answer 8

do you get it now @Wolf_Girl_02

Answer 9

Yup thanks

Answer 10

Your Welcome :3

Answer 11

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