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A farmer has 63 cows and 81 sheep. Write the ratio of cows to sheep in its lowest terms.​

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Answer:

7:9

Explanation:

The basic ratio is 63:81 but to simplify this ratio you can simplify each number as a multiplication of its factors.

63=3*3*7

81=3*3*3*3

Now find the factors they have in common and get rid of them.

63=3*3*7

81=3*3*3*3

The numbers in bold are all the factors that they have in common.

You can cancel these numbers out.

Now the remaining numbers you can put into a ratio in the same order

7:3*3

7:9

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