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Three neighbors are sharing a rectangular strip of land for a garden. They divide the land into 24 equal sized pieces. They each get the same amount of land. Write a ratio comparing the number of pieces of the land to the number of people. Write the answer in more than one way.

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24 : 2, 24 to 2,
(24)/(2)

12 : 1, 12 : 1, 12 to 1,
(12)/(1)


User Marcel Wasilewski
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3:24 3/24 1/8 1:8 just simplify the two numbers
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