Ratios as Decimals

Ratios As Decimals
Introduction

Ratios compare two quantities and show how they are related. Writing ratios as decimals helps make comparisons easier, especially when working with measurements, prices, and rates in...

Lena is organizing the art supplies in the classroom. She counts 45 colored pencils, out of which 15 are unsharpened, and 30 are sharpened.

Her teacher gave her a challenge: to express the ratio of unsharpened pencils to sharpened ones in decimal form. Let's see how she can do that.

First, she writes the ratio of unsharpened pencils ...