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Question 95616: Please help me i am no good at word problems. Science and medicine. Fungicides account for 1%2F10 of the pesticides used in the united states. The ratio of fungicides to insecticides used in the U.S. can be written %281%2F10%29/%281%2F4%29. Write the ratio in simplist form.
Please help me.
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(1/10)/(1/4)
invert the denominator and multiply
(1/10)*(4/1)
= 4/10
= 2/5
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Cheers,
Stan H.