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McGraw Hill Integrated II, 2012

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1. Ratios and Proportions

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Exercise 1 Page 546

Make sure you give the simplest form of the ratio.

23:50

Practice makes perfect

A ratio is a comparison of two quantities by division. We can write a ratio of two numbers a and b, where b ≠ 0, in three ways. a/b a : b a to b We are given the following measurements. Number of pet owners:& 460 Number of households:& 1000 We want to find the ratio of pet owners to households. 460/1000 Finally, we can write the ratio as a fraction in simplest form.

460/1000

SplitIntoFactors

Split into factors

23 * 20/50 * 20

Simplify quotient

23/50

We can write this simplified ratio in any of the three ways. 23/50 23:50 23to50

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Exercises p.546-549