Question

The ratio of adults to children at a park is 1/3. The total number of people at the park is 36. How many children are at the park?

Answer 1

24 children 12 adults

Answer 2

Adults 1, children 3.  Total is 36. The total of your ratio is 4. If you divide  35 by 4, you get 9.

So your ratio looks like this:  9: 27. 

So there are 27 children.