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10 Nov 2019, 13:55
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Hi there,
I need a little bit of assistance with the following questions:
1. The ratio of boys to girls in a classroom is 5 to 7. If one student is select at random, what is the probability that this student is a boy?
2. Reduce the following ration 15!:14!
3. The ration of pants to shirts in Raj's closet is 4:5 and Raj has fewer than 47 items in his closet. How many items does Raj's closet contain?
I need a little bit of assistance with the following questions:
1. The ratio of boys to girls in a classroom is 5 to 7. If one student is select at random, what is the probability that this student is a boy?
2. Reduce the following ration 15!:14!
3. The ration of pants to shirts in Raj's closet is 4:5 and Raj has fewer than 47 items in his closet. How many items does Raj's closet contain?
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10 Nov 2019, 20:16
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I need a little bit of assistance with the following questions:
1. The ratio of boys to girls in a classroom is 5 to 7. If one student is select at random, what is the probability that this student is a boy?
You can take the numbers as 5x and 7x, so total strength is 5x+7x=12x.
Probability of selecting 5x out of 12x is 5x/12x=5/12
2. Reduce the following ration 15!:14!
15!=15*14*13*....*2*1 while 14!=14*13*12*...*2*1
So 15!=15*14!
15!:14!=15*14!:14!=15:1
3. The ration of pants to shirts in Raj's closet is 4:5 and Raj has fewer than 47 items in his closet. How many items does Raj's closet contain?
Let pants and shirts be 4x and 5x, so total items are 4x+5x=9x<47....x<5.2..
x can be 1,2,3,4,5, so total items can be 9, 18, 27, 36 or 45
1. The ratio of boys to girls in a classroom is 5 to 7. If one student is select at random, what is the probability that this student is a boy?
You can take the numbers as 5x and 7x, so total strength is 5x+7x=12x.
Probability of selecting 5x out of 12x is 5x/12x=5/12
2. Reduce the following ration 15!:14!
15!=15*14*13*....*2*1 while 14!=14*13*12*...*2*1
So 15!=15*14!
15!:14!=15*14!:14!=15:1
3. The ration of pants to shirts in Raj's closet is 4:5 and Raj has fewer than 47 items in his closet. How many items does Raj's closet contain?
Let pants and shirts be 4x and 5x, so total items are 4x+5x=9x<47....x<5.2..
x can be 1,2,3,4,5, so total items can be 9, 18, 27, 36 or 45
11 Nov 2019, 13:05
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If you're stuck, one place to start is by rewriting what they're asking you for.
The probability that a student is a boy, is the following:
number of boys / total number of students
You don't know the exact number of boys, or the exact number of students. However, you do know that 5 out of every 12 students are boys (because for every 5 boys, there are 7 girls - so, for every 5 boys, there are a total of 5+7 = 12 students). Therefore, this fraction is 5/12.
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To reduce a ratio, divide each part of the ratio by the same number.
To reduce a ratio as much as possible, keep dividing until you can't find any more common factors to divide by.
The ratio you have here is really this:
15x14x13x12x...x3x2x1 : 14x13x12x...x3x2x1
The two sides of the ratio have a LOT of common factors you could divide by: you can divide by 14, by 13, by 12, and so on. Does that get you unstuck?
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It's hard to say! Assuming the only items in the closet are pants and shirts (that is, he doesn't have any jackets, belts, etc.) - then, here's how you'd start with this. You know that for every 4 pants, there are 5 shirts, for a total of 9 items. So, the total number of items would have to be a multiple of 9. You can confirm this by trying some numbers:
4 pants and 5 shirts = 9 items = multiple of 9
40 pants and 50 shirts = 90 items = multiple of 9
8 pants and 10 shirts = 18 items = multiple of 9
and so on.
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