Question

The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 4: 5 a) What fraction of the class are boys?

b) What fraction of the class are girls?​

Answer 1

a) 4/9

b)5/9

Explanation:

The ratio 4:5 could be seen as 4 being the number of boys and 5 being the number of girls and both boys and girls equal 9 pupils hence we put specific genders over both genders