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Lesson 1: Intro to ratiosRatio review
Learn how to find the ratio between two things given a diagram.
A ratio compares two different quantities.
For example, those two quantities could be monkeys and bananas:
Notice that there are start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd monkeys and start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10 bananas.
Here are a few different ways we can describe the ratio of monkeys to bananas:
- There are start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd monkeys for every start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10 bananas.
- The ratio of monkeys to bananas is start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd to start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10.
- The ratio of monkeys to bananas is start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd, colon, start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10.
Order matters in ratios. Here are a few different ways to describe the ratio of bananas to monkeys:
- There are start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10 bananas for every start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd monkeys .
- The ratio of bananas to monkeys is start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10 to start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd.
- The ratio of bananas to monkeys is start color #e07d10, 5, end color #e07d10, colon, start color #11accd, 4, end color #11accd.
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- Hi 🤩SOPHIALIU🌸🌺
A rate is something that allows you to express one thing in terms of another thing, this is easiest to demonstrate with an example:
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