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We can go through each answer to verify whether each is equivalent to 8 : 6.
4 : 3 is equivalent to 8 : 6 because reducing the ratio 8 : 6 by a factor of 2 yields 4 : 3.
6 : 8 is not equivalent to 8 : 6 because the ratio is reversed.
16 : 12 is equivalent to 8 : 6 because the ratio is increased by a factor of 2.
10 : 8 is not equivalent to 8 : 6. We can verify this by checking whether each term was scaled equally:
10 ÷ 8 = 1.25
8 ÷ 6 = 1.33. Therefore, they are unequal.
7 : 5 is not equal to 8 : 6 for the same reason.
The only correct choices are:
4 : 3 and 16 : 12.
The answer is given below:
Easy!
You take the total number of students (55) then you remove the people that only like math and remove the people that only like English and remove the people that like none of them and what’s left is how many like both subjects.
55-15-18-5=17 students that like both subjects!
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They are being multiplied by 2 each time.