Question

Christian has a collection of 18 shark teeth .He identified them as 6 tiger shark teeth, 8 sand shark teeth ,and the rest as bull shark teeth .what does the ratio 6:8 represent in this situation

Answer 1

Given:

Total number of shark teeth =18

Number of tiger shark teeth = 6

Number of sand shark teeth  = 8

Number of bull shark teeth = 4

To Find:

What does the ratio 6:8 represent.

Solution:

Here number of tiger shark teeth is given as 6 and number of sand shark teeth is given as 8.

Therefore the ratio,

• $\frac{Tiger Shark Teeth}{Sand Shark Teeth}$ = $\frac{6}{8}$

Therefore the ratio 6:8 os represented by Tiger Shark Teeth : Sand Shark Teeth.