The following table displays the results of a survey of 60 6th-grade students on what color athletic shoe they would want.
Shoe colors and number of students: red 15 students, purple 22 students, green 7 students, yellow 16 students. What is te part-to-wole ration for the yellow writtenwith a colon?
The part-to-whole ratio for the color yellow in the survey results would be "16:60".
To find the part-to-whole ratio for yellow, we need to compare the number of students who chose yellow shoes to the total number of students in the survey.
The number of students who chose yellow shoes is 16, and the total number of students in the survey is 60.
Therefore, the part-to-whole ratio for yellow can be written as:
Yellow : Total = 16 : 60
To find the part-to-whole ratio for the color yellow, we need to determine what proportion of the whole survey respondents chose yellow as their preferred shoe color.
The number of students who chose yellow is given as 16. To find the whole or total number of students surveyed, we sum up the number of students who chose each color: 15 students (red) + 22 students (purple) + 7 students (green) + 16 students (yellow) = 60 students in total.
Now that we have determined the whole as 60 students and the part (number of students who chose yellow) as 16, we can express the part-to-whole ratio for yellow as 16:60.