Timeline for How to explain the difference between the fraction a / b and the ratio a : b?
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| May 7, 2016 at 10:20 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | This is not correct. A 3 to 4 ratio, as in cooking, means for every 7 cups of stuff used, 4 are of one type, and 3, the other. Each ingredient is then 4/7 or 3/7 of the total. The G/B ratio is 12/14 or 6/7 but there are 12/26 or 6/13 students are girls. The example doesn't make this clear. | |
| Apr 30, 2016 at 3:09 | comment | added | user507 | I don't understand this answer, so it's hard for me to imagine how children could understand this approach. | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 3:17 | vote | accept | Abdallah Abusharekh | ||
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:26 | history | edited | Burt Furuta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
revised last paragraph
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| Jan 26, 2015 at 20:56 | history | answered | Burt Furuta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |