Question

at a use car lot there are 6 cars and trucks the ratio of vehicles to cars is 14to6. Braden says the ratio 14:6 is equivalent to 6:8 is his reasoning correct? justify your reasoning

Answer 1

To determine if what Braden says is correct or not, we will remember how to determine equivalent ratios. It comes from the different ways to write the same ratio, or the same proportion, as a fraction. If we are able to show that a fraction is just a simplification of the other, than they are equivalent.

From this, let's simplify the fraction which is eq