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Question

In a bag of chocolate candies, there are 21 brown candies and 6 green candies. What is the ratio of brown to green? What is the ratio of green to brown?



Can anyone help me please?

If you get the answer, and if you don't mind, can u show how u solved it because i don't really get ratios.

Answer 1

Ratio is very easy and I donot think,you should at all worry about it.In fact it is mathematical way of comparing between two things Say your height to your friend's, or no.of apples you have with those of Tracy or to the marks obtined by John with that of Sam etc>Just remember,comparasion can not be done about two things that are not similar and hene ratios are also made of two or more similar quantities.Ratios are expressed in either of the following ways 4:5 (say)or 4/5 or 2:3(or 2/3) or 1:6(or 1/6).The most important thing you should remember is that because ratio is an comparasion between two similar quantity or quality.there is no unit of ratio.
Now,let us solve the problems quickly
Brown candies:Green Candies=21;6=7:2 (after dividing both the numbers by 3 to reduce them} and that is your answer.I have tried to explain to you the ratio problems but if you feel that some point/s is/are not clear,please donot hesitate to send me a mail through Yahoo Answers and I shall be too glad to explain the same to you with the best of my abilities.

Answer 2

As per your question , the total of 27 chocolate candies


There for the ratio of brown to green is 21 : 6
Simplify by divide by 3 7: 2

There for the ratio of green to brown is 6 :21
Simplify by divide by 3 2:7

Answer 3

Ratios are just fractions and odds.

brown to green is:
21:6 which is the same as saying 21/6

green to brown is:
6:21

What ever goes first is the one that is askes for first like in the the first one brown is asked for first so you say 21 then you ahve to put the ratio sign which is : so then you have to give what it askes for second which is green wich is 6 so you have your answer 21:6. I hope i helped!!!! : )

Answer 4

Ratios are different from fractions, because ratios compare the two groups to each other, not to the total combined. (Fractions compare a part to the whole.)

Ratio of Brown : Green
21 : 6
Then divide both sides by 3 (Greatest Common Factor)
to get lowest terms
7 : 2

Ratio of Green : Brown
6 : 21 or 2 : 7 in lowest terms

If you forgot this, think of the number of boys and girls in a class. If the ratio of boys to girls is 2 : 3, that means for every two boys there are three girls. So if there are 20 boys, there are 30 girls.
If there are 200 boys, there are 300 girls. etc.

At the university where I studied math, it was the opposite. The ratio of male to female students was greater. So people joked that women went there just to pick up men!

Answer 5

For brown to green it's 21:6, and from green to brown it's 6:21

Answer 6

brown to green is 21 to 6, 21/6, or 21:6
green to brown is 6 to 21, 6/21, or 6:21
if ur looking for unit rates then ud do division like3
21diveded by 6= 3.5 brown per green or
6divide by 21= .285 green per brown candies

hope i helped

Answer 7

21:6 brown to green
6:21 green to brown

Just taking the amount of brown : the amount of green

simplify it just like you do fractions.6/3=2 21/3=7

7:2 brown to green
2:7 green to brown

Answer 8

a ratio is just a fraction.

ratio of brown to green is 21/6, which you can simplify by dividing each side by 3.

ration of green to brown is 6/21, and you can simplifiy it the same way

Answer 9

21:6 is there a common factor (3)
divide
brown to green is 7:2
verse visa
green to brown is 2:7

good luck

Answer 10

brown to green is just 21 : 6 since they have common factor of 3, its the same as 7 : 2
or 7/2
green to brown is the reverse