Question

Abe’s apple orchard plants both green apple trees and red apple trees. This years planting will include 21 red apple trees and 18 green apple trees. What is the ratio of green apple trees to red apple trees.

Answer 1

Ratios are basically fractions, two things in relation to each other in a sense. The ratio of green apples to red apples is basically green apples/red apples or green apples:red apples.

Therefore the ratio would be 18:21 but when you simplify, dividing by 3, you get 6:7 or 6/7 green apples to red apples.