2006-08-11 19:38:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
If you can find common factors in both sides, then you can divide both sides by that common factor. For example, the ratio of 49 : 21 can be simplified to 7 : 3.
2006-08-11 19:41:41 · answer #1 · answered by Muralasa 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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Your old teacher would only have been correct if you were finding the probability of taking two marbles out and getting a result. In science there is a difference between big numbers and small numbers that have the same ratio, but that difference is mostly that with larger numbers, it is harder to conclude that your results were simply random chance. I'm guessing the old teacher was making a different point about probablility. Ratios may always be simplified. You are always allowed to multiply (or divide) a ratio by 1 without changing the ratio. This is a basic principle of math. Simplifying ratios is the practical application of that rule. When you have 10/50 and divide by 10/10 (which is 1), you have not changed the ratio.
2016-04-06 03:52:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How To Simplify Ratios
2016-09-30 13:14:31 · answer #3 · answered by lesiak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a ratio is like a fraction the ratio 2:4 is the same as 2/4 which can be simplified into 1/2 which is basically 1:2
2006-08-11 19:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by rushin_13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
same way you simplify a fraction
2:4 you can divide both by two to get 1:2
just like with the fraction 2/4 it simplifies to 1/2
2006-08-11 19:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by pevehead 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cut them in half. I am a 13 year old honors student and I
am used to this kind of stuff. For example there is a group
of 1,000 people and you ask do you like Clinton or Bush.
400 say Bush and 600 say Clinton. So the Ratio is 400:500
and you can reduce that by cutting both of the Ratio's in half.
cutting just one means that you changed the order of the whole vote. 400 is 80% of 500 so this can also work. 4:5. 4 being
Bush and 5 being Clinton.
Hope you have the idea!! Best wishes.
2006-08-11 19:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the same way you simplify fractions by cancelling out
e.g. 117:144=13:16
you may write it as a fraction and then cancel too
2006-08-11 19:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to treat them like fractions. Find a common divisor between the 2 numbers and divide them.
2006-08-11 19:42:15 · answer #8 · answered by Travis D. - Houston, TX 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ratios can be simplified in the same manner you simplify fractions.
2006-08-11 23:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by SAMUEL D 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
take the ratio and figure out a number that you can divide both numbers into all the way untill you cant anymore. thats it !!
2006-08-11 19:46:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋