Question

At the animal rescue, there are 30 dogs out of 80 animals. What is this ratio written as a fraction in simplest form?

Answer 1

3:8

Explanation:

30:80 = 3:8

Answer 2

3:8

Explanation:

First, let's look at what each can be divided by.

can both me divided by 5? Yes, 6:16

can both be divided by 3? Yes, 10:26

can both be divided by 2? Yes, 25:40

can we go further into our division? Yes!

Once we divide further, we divide both by 10, getting our answer :)