Question

Ms.Omar runs the school tennis club. She has a bin of tennis balls and rackets. For every 5 tennis balls in the bin, there are 3 tennis rackets. Draw a model to show the ratio of tennis balls to tennis rackets

Answer 1

see the explanation

Explanation:

Let

x ----> number of tennis balls

y ----> number of tennis rackets

we know that

To find out the ratio of tennis balls to tennis rackets, divide the number of tennis ball by the number of tennis rackets

In this problem we have

`(x)/(y)=(5)/(3)`

so

`x=(5)/(3)y`

That means

The number of tennis balls is three-fifths times the number of tennis rackets

see the attached figure to better understand the problem