Question

The school cafeteria is offering a choice of two side dishes at lunch today either watermelon or french fries the ratio of the number of orders of french fries to the total number of side dishes ordered is 9:14

A: there are 9 orders of french fries for every 14 orders of watermelon


B:there are 5 orders of watermelon for every 9 orders of french fries


C: there are 14 orders of french fries for every 9 orders of watermelon


D: there are 5 orders of french fries for every 9 orders of watermelon

Answer 1

B

Explanation:

Here, we are to select the best option that defines the ratio given in the question;

From the question, we are told that the ratio of french fries to the number of side dishes ordered is 9:14

Since 9 represents the french fries, then the ratio representing water melon orders will be 14-9 = 5

Hence, the ratio of french fries orders to water melon orders will be 9:5

The correct option is thus;

There are 9 orders of french fries for every 5 orders of watermelon

Or

There are 5 orders of watermelon for every 9 orders of french fries