Question

there are 14 math teachers and 26 science at school today what is the ratio of math teachers and science at school?

Answer 1

the ratio is

14:26

but you can leave the answer like this the two numbers can be divided by 2 so

14/2=7 and 26/2=13

then the answer is 7:13.

Answer 2

Answer is 7:20

It's basically asking "what is the ratio of math teachers to total teachers?" assuming there are only math and science teachers at this school. For the sake of simplicity, let's just go with that. We have 14 math teachers and 14+26 = 40 teachers total. The ratio of math to total is 14:40 which reduces to 7:20 when we divide both parts of the ratio by the GCF 2.

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