Question

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There are 4 tomato plants, 8 lettuce plants, and 2 cucumber plants in Jill's garden.

a. What is the ratio of tomato plants to lettuce plants?

b. What is the ratio of lettuce plants to cucumber plants?

Answer 1

the ratio of tomato to lettuce is 4:8 or 1:2 the ratio of lettuce to cucumber is 8:2 or 4:1

Explanation:

To simplify a ratio, you need to find the greatest common factor, or GCF, of a fraction. to do this, you list the factors of each number. 8: 1,2,4,8. 4: 1,2,4. 2:1,2. For the first one, the GCF of 4 and 8 is 4, because that is the largest factor that they share. After finding the GCF, you divide both numbers of the ratio by the GCF. 4 divided by 4 is 1, and 8 divided by 4 is 2. I hope this helped :)