What is ratio between two different quantities?

Answer 1

A ratio is basically a comparison of two different quantities to each other.

You often find ratios in their simplest form.

For example, if, in one container, you had 500ml of water and in another you had 1000ml, this is a ration of 500 to 1000 which is written as 500:1000.

However, to make this clearer, we can simplify the ratio.

Seeing as 500 is half of 1000 we can simplify it to a ratio of 1:2 because 1 is obviously half as big as 2!

A ratio, quite simply, compares the amount of something to another amount.

So in this case, there is 500ml of water in one container for every 1000ml of water in the other container.

Ratio is a mathematical comparison of the amount of something.

Hope this helps!