Question

If there are 12 dogs and 42 cats at a pet daycare, fill out all of the possible ratios of

dogs to cats that could be made.
There are 12 dogs for every 42 cats (12:42 ratio)
There are
dogs for every cats try
Type in an equivalent ratio of dogs and cats.

Answer 1

Seeing that there is a 12:42 ratio of dogs to cats, we can divide each value by 6 to find that:

There are 2 dogs for every 7 cats. The representative ratio of this would be (2:7 ratio).