Question

In a basketball game,Carolyn made 14 out of 20 shots. Anna made 16 out of 24 shots. Explain how you can tell if the two players made a proportional number of shots.

Answer 1

You will want to set up the ratio for each and set them equal to each other. Then you can cross multiply to verify if you get the same answer. Another strategy is to set up each ratio and then reduce to lowest terms to see if you get the same fraction.

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