Question

Show that all of these scenarios have similar ratio representations.

A. In every 2 people that Whitney has, 5 wear glasses.
B. For every £1 that Mo has, he has £1.50.
C. For every 225 g of flour, there are 150 g of sugar.

Answer 1

To show that all the scenarios have similar ratio representations, we can use the concept of conversion factors. Each scenario can be expressed as a ratio that is numerically equal to 1.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can deal with these equivalences in the same way we deal with equalities in unit conversions: we can make conversion factors that essentially equal 1. For example, to determine how many eggs we need for 9 c of pancake mix, we construct the conversion factor: