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Among the 112 participants of a roller skate race, 48 are boys and 64 are girls.

What is the ratio of boys to girls?

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Answer:

The ratio of boys to girls is 3:4

Explanation:

This excercise, focuses on ratio problem, and it has to do with the representation of ratio, since we can represent ratio in different ways. let us represent this ratio in the normal/ usual format.

we will first reduce the given value and represent it in the ratio format

given that for roller skate race, 48 are boys and,

roller skate race, 64 are girls

we have the ratio as

=48/64 divide both denominator and numerator by 4

=12/16 further divide both denominator and numerator by 4

=3/4

The ratio is 3:4

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