Question

The ratio of trees to shrubs is 5:2. How many shrubs are there for 30 trees?

Answer 1

30:12

Explanation:

The beginning ratio is 5:2, trees to shrubs.

For every five trees, there are two shrubs.

So here is how we are going to solve the problem, since we are trying to figure out the amount of shrubs for 30 trees, we are going to divide 30 by 5 then once we've found out the quotient, we are going to multiply the quotient by two to get our amount of shrubs.

30 ÷ 5 = 6

6(2)=12

To conclude, for 30 trees there are 12 shrubs.