Question

A rectangular prism is 24cm high, 15cm long and 6cm wide. Find the ratio of height to length to width for the prism..

Answer 1

  As the unit of those three are in cm, you can write it in direct form 

24(height) : 15(length) : 6 (width) 

as these three are multiples of 3, they can be divided by 3 to get simplified ratio 

Therefore 8:5:2 is the ratio