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As you were organizing your closet you counted 20 shirts and 12 pairs of pants what was the pants to shirt ratio?

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NISA [10]3 years ago

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20 : 12

Then you have to take this to the lowest term. 4 is a factor of both numbers so when divided by 4 we get:

= 5 : 3

This is the ratio.

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