Question

Use the table to determine the location with the greatest amount of rainfall and the location with the least amount of rainfall.

Location Amount of Rainfall
Needles, California 0.1173 m
Mt Waialeale, Hawai'i 11.4 m
Puako, Hawai'i 25.6 cm
Death Valley, California 57 mm
Mojave, California 160 mm
Hilo, Hawai'i 480 cm
Using complete sentences, identify the location with the greatest amount of rainfall and the location with the least amount of rainfall, and express the ratio of their respective rainfalls as a whole number.
Describe what this ratio tells you.

Answer 1

Is this a question you need help on or are you asking the people on here to write what they think?

Answer 2

@hannieee

Answer 3

I need help with answering the question

Answer 4

I'm not sure where to start

Answer 5

Ok got it

Answer 6

Ok so Im guessing you already know which numbers to pick for the greatest and for the smallest?

Answer 7

Hawai'i has the most, death valley has the least

Answer 8

isn't it best to convert all to mm?

Answer 9

No. You can convert meters to centimeters.

Answer 10

aha okay

Answer 11

Or cm to m

Answer 12

But since the question is wanting as a whole number its better to convert m to cm

Answer 13

okay. that makes sense

Answer 14

Yea

Answer 15

Do you know the converted number?

Answer 16

no I don't

Answer 17

i know them in mm

Answer 18

Well first go ahead and convert the 0.1173 m into mm

Answer 19

117.3mm

Answer 20

i have a list of all of them if that's better

Answer 21

117.3mm
11400mm
256mm
57mm
160mm
4800mm

Answer 22

there

Answer 23

Ok great! now to convert mm to cm. What do you need to do

Answer 24

11.37cm
1140cm
25.6cm
5.7cm
16cm
480cm

Answer 25

Great! Now if you put the greatest and the least as a ratio, it would look like
480 : 11.37

Answer 26

but those two are not the greatest and the least

Answer 27

lmao oops sorry my bad

Answer 28

haha np

Answer 29

Was looking at the wrong numbers XD

Answer 30

no problem! haha!

Answer 31

So the correct ratio would be 1140 : 5.7

Answer 32

And since the problem wants us the have the ratios as whole numbers, what do you think we should do?

Answer 33

I'm not sure

Answer 34

Well, what we can do first is divide the greatest by the least so that we can put in the ratio, a 1 in the least

Answer 35

I don't understand what you mean

Answer 36

\[1140\div5.7\]

Answer 37

200

Answer 38

Yes thats right! now since we could divide 1140 cm by 5.7 cm to equal a whole number of 200 that just means Hawai'i's amount of rainfall is 200x larger than the amount of rainfall death valley has.

Answer 39

aha okay I think I get it.

Answer 40

Yep!

Answer 41

So that answers what the ratio tells us right?

Answer 42

Yes. All you need to do now is just write and explain in full complete sentences lol

Answer 43

Right! Thank you so so much!!

Answer 44

No problem! Sorry if I made you confused at some parts. Have a nice day!

Answer 45

No not at all! You explained it very well! Have a nice day as well!