Question

Me. Fowler has 16 homework papers and 14 exit tickets to return. Ms. Rivera has 64 homework papers and 60 exit tickets to return. For each teacher write a ratio to represent the umber of homework papers to number of exit tickets they have to return. Are the ratios equivalent? Explain.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Ms Fowler's ratio would be 8:7 and Ms Rivera's would be 16:15, they are not equivalent because the numbers didn't come out to the same ratio when i divided them and 16 and 1 aren't divisible by the same numbers.

here are the steps i took:

1. wrote down the original ratios (16:15 and 64:60)

2. I divided all the numbers by 2 and got them reduced to 8:7 and 30:32

3. I saw that the 8:7 couldn't be divided anymore, so I left it and divided 30 by 2 and 32 by 2 and got 16:15

4. I saw that I couldn't divide those anymore so I compared the ratios and saw that they were not the same so they weren't equal.

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