Question

The ratio of adults to children at a park is 1/3. The total number of people at the park is 36. How many children are at the park?

Answer 1

Adults 1, children 3. Total is 36. The total of your ratio is 4. If you divide 35 by 4, you get 9.

So your ratio looks like this: 9: 27.

So there are 27 children.

Answer 2

24 children 12 adults