Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Exercise 13 Page 112

How many frogs are there? How many turtles?

2 to 5, or 2 : 5

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Recall that a ratio is a comparison of two quantities by division. For example, the ratio of a to b can be written in two different ways. a/b or a: b

We want to write the ratio of frogs to turtles from the following diagram.

Given diagrams

Let's count the frogs and the turtles.

2 frogs and 5 turtles

We have 2 frogs and 5 turtles. Therefore, the ratio of frogs to turtles is 2 to 5, or 2 : 5.