Question

At a university, the student body is made up of approximately 12000 students. Of that total, there are approximately 3500 graduate students and 8500 undergraduate students. Which of the following fractions represents the ratio of undergraduate students to graduate students?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Seeing the question, I assume there are answer choices, but I'll give all possible answers below.

A ratio is pretty much a fraction, that's about it. It's asking the ratio of undergraduate to graduate, which creates

`(undergraduate)/(graduate)`

Now we plug in those numbers in the correct spots

`(8500)/(3500)`

Now to simplify. Since both of these numbers end in 0, there a little truck you can do to automatically make it smaller, and that's getting rid of all the 0s on the end. That makes it...

`(85)/(35)`

To continue simplifying

`(8500)/(3500) = (85)/(35) = (17)/(7)`