A group of friends went out for dinner. 19 of the diners ordered vegetarian food and 14 ordered non-vegetarian food. What is the ratio of number of vegetarian meals to the number of non-vegetarian meal?
1 Answer
Dec 9, 2016
Explanation:
A ratio is the fractional representation of two different numbers, defined by the order in which we want to describe them We want a ratio of Vegetarian/Non-Veg meals, so we put the Vegetarian meal value in the numerator and the on-vegetarian meal value in the denominator.
Ratio =
The decimal form can be obtained by doing the division: 1.357 Vegetarian meal per Non-Vegetarian meal.