Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Exercise 16 Page 112

How many shirts are there? How many pants?

3 to 7, or 3 : 7

Practice makes perfect

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: bWe want to write the ratio of shirts to pants from the following diagram.

Let's count the shirts and the pants.

We have 3 shirts and 7 pants. Therefore, the ratio of shirts to pants is 3 to 7, or 3 : 7.