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Your middle school has 900 students. 1/3 of students bring their lunch instead of buying lunch at school. What is the value of the ratio of the number of students who do bring their lunch to the number of students who do not?

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Answer:
2:1
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User Willy Pt
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Hey there!

The ratio is 2:1

If 1/3 of the students bring their lunch, that means 300 students do. That also means that the rest eat lunch at school, meaning 600 students do.

The ratio would be 600:300. If you simplify the ratio, it is 2:1. That means for every 2 students who buy lunch, 1 student brings lunch. Or, for every 3 students, 2 buy and 1 brings.

Good luck! Hope it helped!

User Akhil Soman
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