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Question: Write a word problem that involves ratios. Discuss how you would go about solving this problem.

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Answer:

A theater group has 7 boys and 19 girls. What is the ratio of girls to the entire group?

Explanation:

One ratio problem would be:

A theater group has 7 boys and 19 girls. What is the ratio of girls to the entire group?

In order to solve this problem we would first need to calculate the total number of individuals in the theater group. We do this by adding the number of boys with the number of girls.

7 + 19 = 26

Now since we know there are 19 girls, the ratio would be 19 girls for every 26 individuals, or in ratio format it would be ... 19 : 26

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