Question

Three neighbors are sharing a rectangular strip of land for a garden. They divide the land into 24 equal sized pieces. They each get the same amount of land. Write a ratio comparing the number of pieces of the land to the number of people. Write the answer in more than one way.

Answer 1

24 : 2, 24 to 2, $\frac{24}{2}$

12 : 1, 12 : 1, 12 to 1, $\frac{12}{1}$

Answer 2

3:24 3/24 1/8 1:8 just simplify the two numbers