Question

Fifty students were eating lunch in the school cafeteria. The ratio of boys to girls was 25:25. Mrs. White asked Kym to explain what that ratio meant. Kym said it meant that 25% of the students in the cafeteria were boys.


Explain why Kym is incorrect.

Answer 1

can you tell me what is a ratio?

Answer 2

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @mindfreeze
can you tell me what is a ratio?
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you need to understand what it is

Answer 3

Because if the ratio is split equally, the ratio is half, which equals 50%

Answer 4

the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.

Answer 5

explaining... for 25 girls there are 25 boys.... so?

Answer 6

i think it means 50%

Answer 7

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @cutewolf
i think it means 50%
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Yea :>

Answer 8

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @cutewolf
i think it means 50%
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perfect