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It means that your comparing two things by using the amount. For example there's 5 dogs and 3 cats. The ratio would be 5:3, meaning 5 dogs to cats. You have to watch out the order the question puts it, whatever the way shows you have to do the ratio that way. Hope this helped:D
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