Homework Help: geometry

Posted by marko on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9:38pm.

in a trivia question ;your team answered 32 out of 40 question correctly. the opposing team answered 16 out of 20 questions correctly. was the ratio of correctly answered quesstions to incorrectly questions the same or different for both teams? explain

no they were not same because
team won has 32/40 which was 8 wrong
and 2nd tema 16/20 had 4 wrong

is this right

geometry - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9:40pm
No.

32/40 = 4/5

16/20 = 4/5

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