Question

At the San Diego zoo there are five monkeys for every eighth elephants. There are 48 elephants how many monkeys are there use a table or a double number line to model your problem

Answer 1

To solve the problem divide the number of elephants by 8 (48 divided by 8 is 6), and then multiply the solution by 5 (6 times 5 is 30).

You can put it in a table like this:

5 10 15 20 25 30  - Monkeys

8 16 24 32 40 48  - Elephants