Question

Describe a situation that could be modeled with the ratio 4:1

Answer 1

You bake beautiful sweet delicious dutch apple pies to sell for desserts in your restaurant. When the pies are chilled, you cut each pie into four pieces, and the menu lists $3.49 for a piece of the pie. Write the ratio of the number of pieces you have available for sale to the number of pies you have baked.

Answer 2

You could say that Morpheus has 15 pills in his pocket.

12 of these pills are blue, and 3 of these pills are red.

This means that these blue pills in his pocket outnumber the red pills in his pocket by a ratio of 4:1.

Blue Pill        Red Pill
     4                    1
     4                    1
     4                    1

Total Blue Pills = 12

Total Red Pills = 3

Blue Pills + Red Bills = 15 pills in total