Question

Rachel has a certain number of pencils in her locker. She has 12 sharpened pencils and 32 unsharpened pencils. What is the ratio of unsharpened pencils to sharpened pencils?

Answer 1

sharpened to unsharpened = 3 : 8

for every 3 sharpened pencil, there are 8 unsharpened pencils

Explanation:

12s : 32u

12/32

divide both by 4

3/8

ratio = 3:8