Question

Use the table to answer the questions.

Team Sports
Sport Number of
Players
Baseball 9
Basketball 5
Football 11
Hockey 6
Lacrosse 10
Polo 4
Rugby 15
Soccer 11

Enter the ratio of lacrosse players to soccer players in the form
a
b
and then as a decimal showing up to four decimal places. Tell whether the decimal is a terminating or a repeating decimal.

Answer 1

Answer: 10/11, or 0.9090 (repeating)

Explanation:

A ratio normally would be written as 10:11 as you are comparing lacrosse players to soccer players.

To write this as a fraction you put the first number in the ration as the numerator and the second number as the denominator, 10/11.

To write as a decimal you solve the fraction. To solve the fraction you just divide 10 by 11 which in 0.9090, repeating.

0.9090 is the decimal version of this ratio and is a repeating decimal because the numbers keep going on as 9090 instead of ending.