Question

A backyard pond has 12 sunfish and 30 rainbow shiners. Write the

ratio of sunfish to shiners in simplest form.

Answer 1

2:5

Find the number both sides can be divided by in this case, it is 6. Diving both sides by a common number gives us 2 from 12 and 5 from 30.

Answer 2

Answer: 2:5

Explanation:

Given,

Number of sunfish = 12

Number of rainbow shiner = 30

To find,

The ratio of sunfish to rainbow shiner.

Solution,

We can simply solve this mathematical problem by using the following mathematical process.

Ratio of sunfish to rainbow shiner :

= Number of sunfish : Number of rainbow shiner

= 12 : 30

= 6 : 15

= 2 : 5

(This ratio cannot be for the simplified so we will have to assume this as the final answer of this question.)

Hence, the ratio is 2:5