Question

A box contains 84 chocolates, of which 63 are dark chocolate. The rest are milk chocolates. What is the ratio of milk chocolates to the total number of chocolates in the box?

Answer 1

21:84

Explanation:

You subtract 63 from 84 and get 21. It then asks to compare it to the total number which it said was 84. It could be represented in a few ways:

21:84

21/84 (fraction)

Answer 2

no.of milk chocolates:no. of total chocolate

1 : 4

Explanation:

firstly we can take ratio as 21:84 Then, we can simplidy it dividing by 4 as following way,

21 : 84

4 4

then we can get 1 : 4 as the answer.