Question

Before her shopping spree, Lemon owned 11 shirts. Then she bought some more and now she owns 33 of them. What is the ratio of shirts before the purchase to the total number of shirts after the purchase

Answer 1

So the ratio of shirts before the purchase to the total number of shirts after the purchase is 1:3

Explanation:

In this question we have to find the ratio of before and after so It will be written like this

Before : After

11: 33

Dividing both sides with 11

11/11:33/11

1: 3

So the ratio of shirts before the purchase to the total number of shirts after the purchase is 1:3

Which means that if we have total of 4 shirts then the number of shirts before the purchase were 1 and after the purchase were 4 meaning there are 3 new shirts in place for every single old shirt.