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Alpha Exercise 2α Write down the ratio of vowels to consonants in each of the given words. Simplify your ratio where possible.
a) PLAN
b) NUMBER
c) RATIO
d) SHAPE
e) GRAPH
f) EQUALS
g) INVERSE
h) SCALE
i) PRIME
j) MATHEMATICS
k) VERTEX
l) MULTIPLE
m) FACTOR
n) ROTATION
o) REFLECTION
p) TRANSLATION
q) ENLARGEMENT
r) TRANSFORMATIONS
s) SIMULTANEOUS
t) CUMULATIVE

Answer 1

Vowels are “a,e,I,o,u”.
Consonants are the rest of the letters of the alphabet (e.g. b, c, y)

Ratios are comparisons of two or more amounts. For example if I have 2 eggs and 5 pens, the ration of eggs to pens would be 2:5. Ratios can also be simplified. An example could be if I had 10 eggs and 50 pens my first ratio would be 10:50. To simplify this you must find the highest common factor and divide BOTH of the numbers by it. In 10:50, you would get 1:5 when you divide both sides by 10.

So (a) has 1 vowel and 4 consonants. The ration would be 1:4.

(B) has 2 vowels and 4 consonants. The ration would be 2:4 which can be simplified to 1:2.

IMPORTANT: make sure to not swap the sides of the numbers. It should be vowels:consonants, not consonants:vowels.

Hope this helped.