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Jordan noticed that in his class there were 16 and 10 girls he wanted to write a ratio to represent the number of girls to the number of boys he wrote the ratio as 8:5 was he correct in writing this ratio explain your reason

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yes because if you divide 16:10 by 2 you get 8:5 and that still works

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