Question

There are some chocolates in a box.

1/4 of the chocolates contain nuts.

The rest of the chocolates do not contain nuts.
Write down the ratio of the number of chocolates that contain nuts to the number of
chocolates that do not contain nuts.
Give your answer in the form 1 :n

Answer 1

1:3

Explanation:

If 1/4 contains nut then the number without nuts will be 1-1/4 =3/4

Hance the ratio of nuts chocolate to chocolate without nuts is 1/4:3/4

by multiplying both by the LCD of 4

we will have 1:3 as the ratio