Question

David feeds 32 fish to a mother seal and baby seal. This mother seal has 5 fish for every 3 fish for the baby seal.How many fish does David feed the mother seal

Answer 1

To find how many fish David fed the mother, you will use the part to part ratio of 5 fish for the mother to 3 fish for the baby to come up with a total amount from this simple ratio.

5 + 3 = 8 fish

If there were 32 total fish fed to the mom and baby, this is 4 groups of the 8 that is represented in the simple ratio.

This means there will be 4 times the number of fish fed to the mother as well.

5 x 4 = 20

There were 20 fish fed to the mother.

5    20
3 = 12 
8    32