Question

In a bag of candy for every 9 chocolate pieces there are 6 sugar pieces. What is the ratio of chocolate pieces to sugar pieces?

Answer 1

1.5

Explanation:

9 divide by 6 equals to 1.5 so for every 1.5 chocolate pieces there are 1 sugar pieces

Answer 2

The ratio is 9:6 or 3:2 simplified.

Explanation:

a ratio is just of many of one thing there are the the quantity of another thing. In this case, there are 9 chocolate pieces to every 6 sugar pieces. This can be written as the fraction
`(9)/(6)` and can be simplified to
`(3)/(2)` So that there are 3 chocolate pieces to every 2 sugar pieces.