you're planning to supply cookies for a staff party. You're thinking of purchasing platters and cookies containing 80 sugar cookies and 15 chocolate chip cookies. what is the ratio of sugar cookies to chocolate chip cookies?

Respuesta :

We have the following:

To calculate the proportion, we must calculate the quotient between sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies, as follows

[tex]\frac{80}{15}=\frac{16\cdot5}{3\cdot5}=\frac{16}{3}[/tex]

Which means that for every 3 chocolate chip cookies there are 16 sugar cookies.