Question

A bag contains 10 white gumballs and 12 orange gumballs.

What is the ratio, written in lowest terms, of white gumballs to the total number of gumballs in the bag?
@perl

Answer 1

What you are looking for is the fraction of white gumballs to TOTAL.

Ratio means one number divided by another.

So, how many white gumballs do we have?

Answer 2

10

Answer 3

how many total gumballs are there?

Answer 4

22

Answer 5

Now divide the first number you gave by the second number. That is your ratio:
$$
{10\over 22}
$$
Make sense?

Can this be simplified?

Answer 6

yush
\[\frac{ 5 }{11 }\]

Answer 7

im not sure but I think 5/11?

Answer 8

Perfect! That's your answer.