How you created something
I think it is childhood I am not completely sure<span />
When Cisneros describes the smell of her mother's hair as "the warm smell of bread before you bake it," she is showing the comfort she gets from her mother's hair.
The smell of baking bread is a comforting smell that reminds her of home. Bread is also nourishing. By comparing her mother's hair to baking bread, she is showing the reader how beautiful, comforting, and necessary she finds her mother.
A ratio stays equivalent when you multiply or divide the same thing to both numbers, just like fractions:
First of all, you can simplify it to
3:4 by dividing both numbers by 5.
Now you can multiply both numbers by 5 to get 75:100
Finally, you can multiply both numbers by 3 to get the ratio 45:60