How would you write the following as a ratio?

Question

There were 3043 county governments in the US. Of these, 3 were in Delaware. Was the ratio of governments in Delaware to total governments?

Answer 1

3:3043

You don't have your email set up properly so I was unable to answer your question...

What you asked would change that from a ratio to something not connected to ratios.

Answer 2

3043:3
if it was like 3033 instead you can didvide by 3 and do 1011:1

Answer 3

the answer is 1014.3 and the answer is going to have that bar over the three because it repeats