A local animal shelter houses only cats and dogs. This week of all the baby animals, there are 16 kittens and 7 puppies. What is the ratio of kittens to all the baby animals?
16 to 23?
A box contains three types of fruits: apples bananas and pears. There are 20 pieces o f fruit in all. Of these, 3 are apples and 11 are bananas. What is the ratio of pears to bananas?
6 to 11?
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To find the ratio, you need to divide the number of one type of object (in this case, kittens or pears) by the total number of objects (in this case, all the baby animals or all the fruits).
For the first question, we have 16 kittens and 7 puppies. So the total number of baby animals is 16 (kittens) + 7 (puppies) = 23. To find the ratio of kittens to all the baby animals, we divide the number of kittens (16) by the total number of baby animals (23):
Ratio = Number of kittens / Total number of baby animals = 16 / 23
So the ratio of kittens to all the baby animals is 16 to 23.
For the second question, we have a total of 20 pieces of fruit. Of these, 3 are apples and 11 are bananas. To find the ratio of pears to bananas, we divide the number of pears by the number of bananas:
Ratio = Number of pears / Number of bananas = x / 11
To find x, we subtract the number of apples and bananas from the total number of fruits:
x = Total number of fruits - Number of apples - Number of bananas = 20 - 3 - 11 = 6
So the ratio of pears to bananas is 6 to 11.