Question

Directions: Use the information given to form your ratios/rates

1. At BJH, there are 946 students total. 418 students are girls.
a. What is the ratio of girls to total students?
b. What is the ratio of boys to total students?
c. What is the ratio of girls to boys?

Answer 1

Answers:

(a) 19:43

(b) 24:43

(c) 19:24

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Work Shown for Part (a)

418 girls : 946 total

418:946

418/22 : 946/22

19:43

Note: 22 is the GCF of 418 and 946

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Work Shown for Part (b)

946 total students, 418 are girls, the remaining 946-418 = 528 are boys

528:946

528/22 : 946/22

24:43

Note: 22 is the GCF of 528 and 946

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Work Shown for Part (c)

418 girls : 528 boys

418:528

418/22 : 528/22

19:24

Another approach: The result of part (a) tells us there could be 19 girls in a class of 43 students. The result of part (b) tells us there are 24 boys in a class of 43 students. Note that 19+24 = 43.