Question

during one day in a hardware store, 37 people came in and made a purchase, and 13 people looked around but didnt purchase anything. Express the following ratios

Answer 1

In the day the number of purchasers was 37 and the number of nonpurcharses is 13

To determine the purchasers/nonpurchasers you have to divide the number of people that purchased something by the number of people that only browsed the store

`(37)/(13)`

The nonpurchasers to purcharsers ratio follows the same logic, divide the number of people that didn't buy something by the number of people that made purchases

`(13)/(37)`

The total customers of the store is

`37+13=50`

The ratio purchasers to total customers ratio is

`(37)/(50)`