Question

The ratio of the number of the model cars that Jim owns to the number of cars Terrence owns is 4:3. Terrence owns 36 model cars. How many model cars does Jim own? Will the ratio change if Jim and Terrence each sell ten of their model car?

Answer 1

Answer in explanation

Explanation:

The ratio of their ownership is 4:3 I.e J to T

Now we know that Terrence has 36 model cars. To find the number of model cars Jim own, we need to find the unit ownership. This is the same as 36/3 which is 12 cars.

This means Jim has 12 * 4 = 48 model cars.

Now we are looking at them selling 10 of their cars each. This would bring the number of model cars owned to be 38 and 26 respectively.

The ratio here would now be 38:26 which is same as 19:13. Of course this is different from 4:3, hence we can conclude that the ratio will indeed change