Types of RATIOS

Vocabulary Definition:

A ratio is a comparison of any two quantities.

 

 

When you are comparing two of the SAME measures, you are using these two types of ratios.

—Part to Whole Ratios

—Part to Part Ratios

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What is a Part to Whole RATIO?

• PART to WHOLE RATIOS can be written in THREE different ways.

• As a FRACTION:

          Part/Whole

• Using a COLON

​          Part : Whole

• Using the word, “to”

            Part to Whole

 

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-ratios-rates/pre-algebra-ratios-intro/v/ratios-intro

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5_eqmcp6c

 

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