Question

Tom has 18 tiger-eye marbles and

Shannon has 15 agate marbles. What
is the ratio of Shannon's marbles to
Tom's marbles?

Answer 1

cancel out so it is tom has 3 more she has 15 3:1 15=1

Explanation:

Answer 2

Ratio of number of marbles with Shannon to number of marbles with tom is 5 : 6

SOLUTION:

Given that,

Tom has 18 tiger-eye marbles,

Shannon has 15 agate marbles

Ratio of Shannon's marbles to Tom's marbles = ?

Now, number of marbles with Shannon = 15

And number of marbles with tom = 18

So, ratio of Shannon's marbles to Tom's marbles =
`\frac{\text {no. of marbles with shannon}}{\text {no. of marbles with tom}}`

`= (15)/(18)`

Cancel by 3 in numerator and denominator, we get

`= (5)/(6)`

The fraction
`(5)/(6)` can be written in ratio as = 5 : 6

Hence, the ratio proportion is number of marbles with Shannon to number of marbles with tom is 5 : 6