Each marble bag sold by Hans's Marble Company contains 8 purple marbles for every 5 green marbles. If a bag has 30 green marbles
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We can set up a proportion since we know the ratio between the # of purple marbles and the # of green marbles.
A ratio is a way to compare two different values: for every 8 purple marbles there are 5 green marbles
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We can go through each answer to verify whether each is equivalent to 8 : 6.
4 : 3 is equivalent to 8 : 6 because reducing the ratio 8 : 6 by a factor of 2 yields 4 : 3.
6 : 8 is not equivalent to 8 : 6 because the ratio is reversed.
16 : 12 is equivalent to 8 : 6 because the ratio is increased by a factor of 2.
10 : 8 is not equivalent to 8 : 6. We can verify this by checking whether each term was scaled equally:
10 ÷ 8 = 1.25
8 ÷ 6 = 1.33. Therefore, they are unequal.
7 : 5 is not equal to 8 : 6 for the same reason.
The only correct choices are:
4 : 3 and 16 : 12.