STANDARDS

CCSS: 6.RP.A.1

TEKS: 6.5A

The Pet Parade

October 2023

by Karina Hamalainen • Illustration by RJ Mason

Writing and Simplifying Ratios

Find the following ratios of animals at the pet parade. Write your answers in simplest form. Record your work and answers on our answer sheet.

What’s the ratio of dogs to cats? What type of ratio is it?

What’s the ratio of total animals to bunnies? What type of ratio is it?

What’s the ratio of birds to dogs, cats, and bunnies combined? What type of ratio is it?

NEED A HAND?

Ratios are comparisons between two quantities. They can represent part-to-part, part-to-whole, or whole-to-part relationships.

Here is a set of pumpkins:

Parts: 4 carved, 2 uncarved
Whole: 4 + 2 = 6

Part-to-Part
What’s the ratio of carved to uncarved pumpkins?
4:2 = 2:1

Part-to-Whole
What’s the ratio of carved to total pumpkins?
4:6 = 2:3

Whole-to-Part
What’s the ratio of total pumpkins to uncarved pumpkins?
6:2 = 3:1

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