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The Pet Parade
Writing and Simplifying Ratios
Find the following ratios of animals at the pet parade. Write your answers in simplest form. Record your work and answers on our answer sheet.
What’s the ratio of dogs to cats? What type of ratio is it?
What’s the ratio of total animals to bunnies? What type of ratio is it?
What’s the ratio of birds to dogs, cats, and bunnies combined? What type of ratio is it?
Ratios are comparisons between two quantities. They can represent part-to-part, part-to-whole, or whole-to-part relationships.
Here is a set of pumpkins:
Parts: 4 carved, 2 uncarved Whole: 4 + 2 = 6
Part-to-Part What’s the ratio of carved to uncarved pumpkins? 4:2 = 2:1
Part-to-Whole What’s the ratio of carved to total pumpkins? 4:6 = 2:3
Whole-to-Part What’s the ratio of total pumpkins to uncarved pumpkins? 6:2 = 3:1