Question

you're planning to supply cookies for a staff party. You're thinking of purchasing platters and cookies containing 80 sugar cookies and 15 chocolate chip cookies. what is the ratio of sugar cookies to chocolate chip cookies?

Answer 1

We have the following:

To calculate the proportion, we must calculate the quotient between sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies, as follows

`(80)/(15)=(16\cdot5)/(3\cdot5)=(16)/(3)`

Which means that for every 3 chocolate chip cookies there are 16 sugar cookies.