Question

A grocery store display has 60 oranges and 18 apples. What is the ratio of oranges to apples?

Answer 1

10 to 3. you find a common factor and divide i used 6.

Answer 2

Let us denote the number of oranges with X and the number of apples with Y. The The ratio between X and Y indicates how many times the X contains Y. It is noted with: X/Y .

In our case X=60 and Y=18

60/18

Both 60 and 18 is divided with 6: 60:6=10, 18:6=3, which makes the correct answer for the ratio of oranges to apples: 10/3