Sandy's orchard has only apple trees and pear trees and she is wanting to add some avocado trees. Currently, there are 4 apple trees for every 3 pear trees. She is wanting to plant enough avocado trees so that she has 2 avocado trees for every 5 pear trees in the orchard.
Sandy is planting 18 avocado trees, making the ratio of avocado trees to apple trees be __ to __

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Sandy's orchard has only apple trees and pear trees and she is wanting to add some avocado trees. Currently, there are 4 apple trees for every 3 pear trees. She is wanting to plant enough avocado trees so that she has 2 avocado trees for every 5 pear trees in the orchard.
Sandy is planting 18 avocado trees, making the ratio of avocado trees to apple trees be  __ to __

anonymous · Answer

@StudyGurl14 Do you think you could help me with this one. Sorry to bother you..

studygurl14 · Answer

Okay, so 4 apple trees for every 3 pear trees. That means --> 4 apples/3pears
She wants to plant enough avocada trees so that she has 2 avocado trees for every 5 pear trees. So... 2 avocada/5 pears
18 avocado trees total. 

First find the amount of pear trees for 1 avaocada tree. Can you do that?

anonymous · Answer

Ok, so i divided 2/5 and I got 0.4... Is that what I was supposed to do? Its my first time I do ratios and my teacher really didnt explain it to me that well.

anonymous · Answer

Well nvm, since im on Studyisland and my session wasnt active for a while it decided to give me a new question

studygurl14 · Answer

No, since 2 avocado trees have 5 pear trees, you divide 5 by 2 to get the amount of pear trees for 1 avocada trees. That gets you 2.5 pears trees per 1 avocada