Question

Diane has four shirts for every eight pairs of jeans that she owns. If she owns 16 pairs of jeans, then how many shirts does she own?

Answer 1

8 shirts

Explanation:

We see that the ratio of shirts to jeans is 1:2. Therefore, there's going to be 2 times more jeans than shirts. So if there's 16 pairs of jeans, half of that would be 8, so the answer is 8 shirts.

Answer 2

4

Explanation:

16 divided by 4 is 4