Question

A farmer has 9 pigs. 10% of the animals on his farm are pigs. Shayla found that the farmer has 111 animals. She made this ratio table to check her answer.
Is Shayla’s table correct? Why?
A. No, she used the wrong values in the table.
B. Yes, the parts in the left column correspond to the wholes in the right column.
C. Yes, the values for parts and wholes are placed in the correct columns.
D. No, she reversed the values in the Whole column and found the incorrect number of animals.

Answer 1

A

if a farmer had 9 pigs and that is 1/10 of his farm animals

9 (=1)

9 x 10 = 10/10 (or 90)

the total farm animals would be 90

so the answer is A.