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Ratio and Proportion

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Lesson: Ratio, Proportion and Fraction Concepts 📚

Have you noticed that there are differences between the classes in your school?
  • ✅ Some have more boys than girls
  • ✅ Some have more sports lovers than art lovers
  • ✅ Some are more interested in Math than others
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How do we compare classes in such cases?
Let us say we have 2 classes A and B

Class A

10 Sport lovers

20 Art lovers

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Class B

8 Sport lovers

8 Art lovers

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If you are a sports lover which class would you rather be in?
There are many ways of comparing quantities. Let us see what some of the other students that picked class B said.
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Only one third of class A is sports lovers, compared to one half in class B. So, I picked class B.
One third and one half are FRACTION
Outnumbered 1 to 2 is a RATIO
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I would be outnumbered 1 to 2 in class A. There is one sports lover for every art lover in class B.
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Class A has 10 sports lovers out of 30 students, which is 1 out of 3. Class B is 1 out of 2. So, I stand a better chance.
1 out of 3 is a PROPORTION
3 ways to say the same thing
1 out of every 3 students in the class is a girl
Proportion
Outnumbered 1 girl for every 2 boys
Ratio
One third of the students in the class are girls.
Fraction

Concept Identification Quiz 🤔

Is this ratio, proportion, or a fraction?

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Order matters in ratios

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Ratios and fractions

What is the ratio of basket balls to tennis balls?
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Count the balls and enter the ratio (basket : tennis).