Question

A teacher is writing a quiz. She wants the ratio of the number of easy questions to the total number questions to be 14:18. If the teacher wants fewer than 14 easy questions on the quiz, how many easy questions should she write?

Answer 1

7

Explanation:

just divide the ratio by 2.

Answer 2

7 easy questions

Explanation:

If you want to maintain the ratio while writing less than 14 easy questions, you can just divide the ratio by 2. Then you have 7 easy questions and 9 hard questions, which is still a ratio of 14:18