Question

A bag contains the following marbles: 5

black marbles, 15 blue marbles, 20 brown marbles, and 10 green marbles. What is the ratio of brown marbles to black marbles? Express your ratio as a fraction or with a colon.

Answer 1

20:5
20/5
The answer would be 4:1 or 4/1

Answer 2

5:20

Explanation:

There are 5 black marbles and 20 brown marbles.

You would put black marbles (5) first, because it came before brown (20) in the list.