Question

Your middle school has 900 students one third of the students bring their lunch instead of buying your lunch at school what is the value of the ratio of the number of students who do you bring your lunch to the number of students who do not

Answer 1

300:600 because 1/3x900=300 and 300 plus 600 equals 900 and simplified to simplest form it would be 1:2

Answer 2

If one third of the students bring their lunch the ratio would be 1:3 . 1:3 is equivalent to 3:9 which is equivalent to 300:900 therefore the ratio of students who bring their own lunch to students who don't bring their lunch is 300:900