Question

Are the ratios 20:8 and 5:2 equivalent?

Answer 1

They are equivalent.

Explanation:

They are equivalent because you can divide the first one by 4 and get 20/4 8/4.

Therefore you get 5:2 you can check the answer and you can get 5x4 and 2x4 which equals 20:8

Answer 2

Yes.

Explanation:

To find this I divided the ratio 20:8 by 4, which makes 5:2, so the two ratios are indeed equivalent.