5 students want lemonade and 5 students want iced tea. What is the ratio of the number of students who want iced tea to the number of students who want lemonade?

Answer 1

Hi Megan,

For every 5 lemonades, there are 5 iced teas. This means for every 1 student that wants a lemonade, there is always 1 student that wants iced tea. This ratio would be 5:5. However, if we break this ratio down even further we get a ratio of 1. This can be written three ways.

1. We can write it as a fraction which would be (1/1) this would simplify into 1.
2. We can also write it using the word "to." So it would be written as a "1 to 1 ratio."
3. The last way we can write this is using a colon. 1:1

Answer 2

Since 5 want lemonade and 5 want iced tea, we can write this ratio as 5 lemonade / 5 iced tea. This simplifies to a ratio of 1 or 1:1. Any time the two numbers are the same, the ratio is going to equal 1, which can also be written as 1:1.