Question

An animal shelter has 36 kittens and 12 puppies available for adoption. What is ration of puppies to kittens?

Answer 1

Pay attention to the wording on problems such as these
ratio of puppies to kittens is 12:36 which reduces to 1:3

however, if u were asked for the ratio of kittens to puppies, it would be 36:12 which would reduce to 3:1

Answer 2

The answer is 12:36 which reduces to 1:3