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Question 1109353: A restaurant worker used five loaves of wheat bread and two loaves of rye bread to make sandwiches.
A)Write a ratio that compares the number of loaves of rye bread to the number of loaves of wheat bread.
B)Describe What the ratio 7:2 means in term of loaves of bread used for the event.
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! they use 5 wheat loaves and 2 rye loaves.
you have 7 total loaves.
the ratio of rye loaves to wheat loaves is 2/5.
the ratio of wheat loaves to rye loaves is 5/2.
the ratio of rye loaves to total loaves is 2/7.
the ratio of wheat loaves to total loaves is 5/7.
the ratio of total loaves to rye loaves is 7/2.
the ratio of total loaves to wheat loaves is 7/5.
if you know the ratio of rye loaves to total loaves and you know the ratio of wheat loaves to total loaves, then you can determine the ratio of rye loaves to wheat loaves by the following formula.
ratio of rye loaves to total divided by ratio of wheat loaves to total equals ratio of rye loaves to wheat loaves.
you get (2/7) / (5/7) = (2/7) * (7/5) = (2/5)
put that in decimal form, you get:
ratio of rye loaves to total loaves = 2/7 = .2857142857.
ratio of wheat loaves to toal loaves = 5/7 = .7142857143
ratio of rye loaves to wheat loaves = ratio of rye loaves to total loaves / ratio of wheat loaves to total loaves = .2857142857 / .7142857143 = .4
.4 * 5/5 = 2/5.
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