Question

In the stands at a basketball game you counted 96 people wearing orange shirts and 36 people wearing purple shirts what was the orange to purple shirt ratio.

Answer 1

Answer:

16:6

Step-by-step explanation:

I would first see if there are any common factors.

$common factors of 96\\96/8=12\\96/6=16\\96/4=24\\96/3=32\\96/2=48\\\\common factors of 36\\36/6=6\\36/3=12\\36/4=9\\36/2=18$

Common factors for both 96 and 36 are 12, 6, 4, 3, and 2.

96 orange shirts : 36 purple shirts

48 orange shirts : 18 purple shirts

24 orange shirts : 9 purple shirts

Get to the lowest numbers which would be...

16 orange shirts to 6 purple shirts.

Factors are whole numbers that are multiplied together to produce another number. The original numbers are factors of the product number.