Question

A volunteer group flew to the Bahamas last year to help with the hurricane relief efforts. They needed 4 airplanes to transport the 420 passengers. This can be expressed as 4 airplanes: 420 people.

Choose the fraction as stated in the problem and the fraction written in simplest form/lowest terms (which means it can't be simplified any lower).

Answer 1

The ratio of 4 airplanes to 420 people simplifies to the fraction 1/105, which is the simplest form.

Step-by-step explanation:

The ratio of 4 airplanes to 420 people is given by the fraction 4/420. To simplify this fraction to its simplest form/lowest terms, you would divide both the numerator (4) and the denominator (420) by their greatest common divisor, which is 4. This simplifies the fraction to 1/105, as 4 ÷ 4 is 1 and 420 ÷ 4 is 105. Therefore, the ratio of airplanes to people in its simplest form is 1/105.