Question

A pattern has five blue triangles to every 80 yellow triangles what is the ratio of blue triangles to all triangles

Answer 1

The answer is set up like this: 5:80, it can be simplified to 1: 16. In simplest form there is 1 blue triangle for every 16 yellow triangles.

Answer 2

Answer: The number of blue triangles to number of yellow triangles is 1:16.

Explanation:

Since we have given that

Number of blue triangles = 5

Number of yellow triangles = 80

According to question,

Ratio of number of blue triangles : number of yellow triangles

`5:80\\\\=1:16`

Hence, the number of blue triangles to number of yellow triangles is

1:16.