Question

Lesson 5 Equivalent Ratios with Tape diagram

2. Last summer, at Camp Okey-Fun-Okey, the ratio of the number of boy campers to the
number of girl campers was 8: 7. If there were a total of 195 campers, how many boy campers
were there? How many girl campers?

Answer 1

• 104 boys
• 91 girls

Explanation:

For each 8+7 = 15 campers, 8 were boys. The number of boy campers was ...

(8/15)(195) = 104 . . . . boy campers

The girl campers made up the remainder ...

195 -105 = 91 . . . . girl campers