vonna scored 27 goals at soccer practice.Her ratio of goals to to misses was 3:5.How many times did she miss?

Question

27 goals but ratio of 3:5 is misses

Answer 1

For every 3 goals Vonna scores, she misses 5. Therefore, you have to multiply 27 by 5/3 to get an answer of 45 misses.

Answer 2

This is a typical proportion question: We want to the goals as our numerator, and misses as our denominator in the fractions we set up on both sides of the equals sign. So, we would say 3/5 = 27/x. Multiplying the denominators to both sides of the equals sign, we get 3x = 135. Solving for x, we get 45, meaning Vonna missed 45 times after scoring 27 goals.