Question

Toby and Ollie share some money in the ratio 5:2

a) What fraction of the money does Ollie get?
Ellis and Harri share some sweets.
Harri gets 1/5 of the sweets.
b) Write the ratio of the number of sweets Ellis gets
to the number of sweets Harri gets.

Answer 1

a) If Toby and Ollie share some money in the ratio 5:2, this means that for every 5 parts Toby gets, Ollie gets 2 parts.

The total number of parts is 5+2 = 7.

Ollie's share is 2 out of 7 parts of the money.

Therefore, Ollie gets 2/7 of the money.

b) If Harri gets 1/5 of the sweets, this means that for every 1 part Harri gets, Ellis gets 4 parts, since:

1 + 4 = 5

The total number of parts is 5.

Therefore, the ratio of the number of sweets Ellis gets to the number of sweets Harri gets is:

4:1 or 4/1