What is the ratio of 12 to 9 in simplest form?

Question

I think this is the answer 1 and 1 over 3
I'm not sure.

Answer 1

To get a "ratio of x to y in simplest form" (for any numbers all it is really asking is what can you divide both numbers (in this case 12 and 9) by a common number to get a whole number for both.

In this case if you divide both by 3 you will get 4 to 3. If you tried a higher number such as '4' insted of '3' to divide into them then you would not get whole numbers, you would get 3 to 2.25 which is NOT the 'simplest form' as the have decimals and not whole numbers.

Basicly to figure out what number to divide them both them both by, just plug in some numbers starting from the number 2 and go high until you get the highest whole numbers on all cases. In this case 3 works out nice. If the ratio was 24 to 18 it still would be 4 to 3 but the highest number that goes into that would be 6 in that case. I hope that works for you.

Answer 2

4 to 3

Answer 3

4 to 3

Answer 4

If you mean 12/9 ( it is the same thing if you multiple or divide both numbers by any number). In this case the highest common divisor is 3 (both 9 and 12 can be divided by 3).
So we have:
(12 : 3) / ( 9: 3) = 4/3 = 3/3 +1/3 = 1+ 1/3

Answer 5

Let's try this way

12 to 9 is the same as 4 to 3

or 1 and 1/3

Answer 6

4:3 you divide 12 and 9 by a common number and that happens to be 3. So you get 4:3.

Answer 7

4/3 or 4:3

Answer 8

yes it is 1 1/3 or 4/3

Answer 9

The answer is 4 to 3. That is for sure.

Answer 10

24 to 18