Question

A garden patio is covered wit grey slabs and yellow slabs .1/5 of the slabs are grey a)write down the ratio of grey slabs to yellow slabs give your answer in its simplest form b)there are 55 slabs in total work out the number of yellow slabs

Answer 1

1:u

Explanation:

Grey slabs = 1/5 of total slab

Say total slab = x

Then,

Grey slabs = 1x/5

We can represent

Yellow slabs = u/5

Then ratio of Grey to yellow would be;

Gray slabs / Yellow slabs = (1x/5)/(u/5)

=1/u

= 1:u

Since there are 55 slabs in total, then

Yellow slab would be = 55/5 = 11