Question

Use the image below to describe at least three different ratios, written In simplest form. Indude at least one part-to-part ratio and one part-to-whole ratio.

Answer 1

Par

In the figure shown we notice that there are 15 blue squares and 10 white squares. The ratio between them is 15 to 10, this is equivalent to a ratio 3 to 2.

Therefore, there are 3 blue squares for each 2 squares, this can be written as:

`3\colon2`