Question

Sophie and Eleanor are making bouquets using daisies and tulips. Each bouquet will have the same total number of flowers,Eleanor uses fewer daisies in her bouquet. than sophie. Whose bouquet will have the greatet ratio of daisies of total flowers? Explain.

Answer 1

Sophie will have a greater daises to total flowers ratio than Eleanor. To make this easier to see, let's assume the boquets have 10 flowers each, and Eleanor uses 2 daisies and 8 tulips, while Sophie uses 5 daisies and 5 tulips. Then Eleanors ratio is 2:10=1:5, while Sophie's ratio is 5:10=1:2.

Answer 2

Sophie's ratio is greater.

Explanation:

Sophie and Eleanor are making bouquets using daisies and tulips. Each bouquet will have the same total number of flowers.

Eleanor uses fewer daisies in her bouquet than Sophie.

Lets say the total flowers used in each bouquet is 15.

Eleanor uses 5 daisies. So, her ratio for daisies to total flowers become =
`(5)/(15)=(1)/(3)`

Suppose Sophie uses 10 daisies so her ratio becomes =
`(10)/(15)=(2)/(3)`

Now comparing both ratios, we can see that Sophie's ratio is greater.