Question

Mr.George divided his money in the ratio 2:6 between Evan and ricky.Evan got the smaller amount of $420. How much did ricky receive

Answer 1

Ratios are like fractions in the way that you can simplify them if they have common factors.
we can simplify this ratio to 
1:3
that means that the bigger part got 3 times the amount of the smaller part. The problem says that Evan got the smaller amount, so if we multiply the smaller amount by 3 we should and will get the bigger amount. It says that $420 is the smaller part.
420*3=1260
so the bigger amount of money is $1260
So, because Ricky got the bigger part of Mr. George's money, he must have received
$1260<span />