Question

PLEASE HELP ME HELP MY 7TH GRADER! The ratio of picnic tables to garbage cans in a new national park should be 8:3. The park design shows plans for picnic tables in a small campground? There are 40 small picnic tables in the campgrounds and 120 large picnic tables at the camp grounds.

Answer 1

small: 40:15 large: 120:45 all: 160:60

Explanation:

the way i did this was

40÷8=5 i did this because we now need to multiply 5×3=15 because thats how we get the number of trash cans.

now do the same thing for the other one

120÷8=15 → 15×3=45

an easy way to check ur answers is to divide the ratio that is given to you (8:3 so 8÷3) and see if it gets the same number as ur new ratio (40:15 so 40÷15)

Im in 8th grade and I hoped this helped :)

Answer 2

it’s kinda hard to explain in words but i think this is what you are looking for