Peggy cycles 3 times as far as Dakota.

Question

Peggy cycles 3 times as far as Dakota.

A:  Find the ratio of the distance that Peggy cycles to the distance that Dakota cycles. Give your answer in fraction form.

 

B: How many times the combined distance is the distance that Peggy cycles?

Answer 1

A.  3:1 or 3/1 is the ratio of how far Peggy cycles compared to how far Dakota cycles.

 

B.  Peggy goes 3 parts of the total distance compared to 1 part for Dakota; so Peggy accounts for 3/4 of the entire distance, and Dakota does the other part (1/4).