Question

In a bag there are blue sweets and red sweets.

The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets is 4:9
What fraction of the sweets are blue?

Answer 1

9/4

Explanation:

9 out of 4 are blue, just flip the ratio.

Answer 2

4/13

Explanation:

A ratio can be added up to find the denominator, and using that information, you can do 4+9=13. Then in order to find the blue sweets which are the 4 part, we just need to make it numerator to get 4/13.