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A personal trainer has a supply of weight plates to make custom barbells to use for weight-training. The trainer adds 21 1/4 pounds of plates to each side of the dumbbell bar, which itself weighs 7 1/2 pounds. Write a ratio comparing the weight added to each side of the dumbbell bar to the weight of the bar itself, using a fraction in simplest terms.

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A personal trainer has a supply of weight plates to make custom barbells to use for weight-training. The trainer adds  21 1/4  pounds of plates to each side of the dumbbell bar, which itself weighs 7 1/2 pounds. Write a ratio comparing the weight added to each side of the dumbbell bar to the weight of the bar itself, using a fraction in simplest terms.

anonymous · Answer

oh no it is not!

anonymous · Answer

adds 21.25 to both sides for a total of $42.5$ almost missed that part

anonymous · Answer

put one on top of the other 
$$\frac{42.5}{7.5}$$ for the ratio
remove the decimal, reduce the fraction

anonymous · Answer

56.667

anonymous · Answer

they want a fraction, not a decimal

anonymous · Answer

how do i make this as a fraction

anonymous · Answer

$$\frac{42.5}{7.5}=\frac{425}{75}$$ divide top and bottom by $25$ to reduce to 
$$\frac{17}{3}$$

anonymous · Answer

okay so the answer is 17/3?