What is my ratio?

Question

If I processed 6644 checks within 4 hours and had 10 process mistakes

Answer 1

Hello, thank you for taking the time to post your question!

My guess is that it’s wanting you to compute how many checks that you processed per hour, so like the rate at which you are processing the checks. To do that you want to take

Total Checks / Total Hours

=6644 / 4

=1661 checks per hour

You could also find mistakes per check or checks processed per mistake as well with the information given using a similar process! It just depends on what exactly the question was asking about

I hope that helps get you moving in the right direction! Feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions beyond that :)

Answer 2

Your ratio depends on what you're looking for. You haven't written what ratio you're looking for, so here's several possibilities:

 

If you want your ratio of failures out of the total, then

(# of failures)/(total #)

 

If you want ratio of successes out of the total, then

(# of successes)/(total #)

 

If you want the ratio of successes to failures (or for the reverse, flip it), then

(# of successes)/(# of failures)

 

If you want failures per hour, then

(# of failures)/(total time)

 

Figure out which ratio the question is asking for, and then divide the two values, in the order specified.