Question

Eric has 5 blue shirts and 9 red shirts. What is the ratio of red to total? and blue to total? and ratio of red to blue?

Answer 1

Information given:

Eric has 5 blue shirts

Eric has 9 red shirts

First, to find the total ratio, you must add all the shirts together

5+9=14

He has a total of 14 shirts

So the ration for blue shirts to the total is 5:14

The ratio for red shirts is 9:14

As stated, he has 5 blue and 9 red shirts

So the ratio of blue to red is 5:9