Question

there are 66 utensils in the cafeteria. 22 of them are spoons and the rest are Forks. what is the ratio of the number of spoons to the total number of utensils?And what is the ratio of the number of forks to the number of spoons?

Answer 1

Let's begin by listing out the information given to us:

Total utensils = 66

Spoons = 22

Forks = 66 - 22 = 44

The ratio of spoons to the total utensil is given by the ratio of spoons to total utensils. We have:

22:66 ⇒ 1:3

Therefore, the ratio of spoons to total utensils is 1 spoon is to 3 utensils

The ratio of the number of forks to spoon is given by the ratio of forks to spoon. We have:

44:22 ⇒ 2:1

Therefore, the ratio of forks to spoon is 2 to 1. For every 2 forks, there is 1 spoon