Question

Moses earns a gross salary of 10 500 per month. the basic monthly expenses used from the income are as follows. housing expense 21%,food 36%,transport 10%,cellphone bills1,9%.the rest is for savings. write down the ratio of the housing percentage to the food percentage in the simplest form​

Answer 1

Since you have the percentage of each category, you need not find the actual value of each of them. You can just use the percentages t find your answer

Housing percentage : Food percentage

`(21)/(100)` :
`(36)/(100)`

21:36

Divide each values by their HCF

21:36

7:12

Thus, the ratio of the housing percentage to the food percentage is 7:12.