Question

Fifty students were eating lunch in the school cafeteria. The ratio of boys to girls was 25:25. Mrs. White asked Kym to explain what that ratio meant. Kym said it meant that 25% of the students in the cafeteria were boys. Explain why Kym is incorrect.

Answer 1

Sample Response: The ratio of boys to total students was 25:50. Written as a fraction, this is 25/50. Rewrite the fraction with a denominator of 100 to 50/100. So 50% of the students were boys.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Because the ratio 25:25 is equal to 50%