Get your Show Me Board and write the lowest term of each
fraction.
4 15 6 18 22 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 14 25 12 27 55 Do you have a pet?
What animal/animals do you take care at
home?
Why do you think people keep pets?
animals What are the animals that you can see on the picture? How many dogs? cats? birds? How many animals are there in all? How will you write the comparison of the number of cats to the dogs? How about the comparison of the number of birds to cats? Compare the number of birds to the total number of animals? Is there another way of writing the comparison of these two different quantities? How? Since ratio can be expressed as a fraction, we can reduce a ratio to lowest terms by using the same methods for reducing fractions to lowest terms.
Let’s practice writing ratio in simplest form. Get your
Show Me Board and give the ratio of the following in simplest form. What is the ratio of bicycles to the number of 1. wheels?
2. In 6-Masipag, what is the ratio of girls to boys?
3. At the hospital there are 26 doctors and 39 nurses. What is the ratio of nurses to doctors? 4. For every 30 pages of an essay Lili write, she watches 10 videos, what is the ratio of videos watched to pages written? 5. Between Noah and Ethan they have a total of 16 race cars and 24 robots. What is the ratio of robots to race cars? P P P P P How do we compare the quantities of 2 sets of objects?