Now that have a basic understanding of what a ratio
is, let's see if we can tackle some more advanced problems.
So, I have a classroom.
It's got 55 students in it.
55 students.
And I also know that the ratio of boys to girls, the ratio of
I'll write it this way, boys to girls is 4:7.
What I want to know is, how many girls do I need to add.
So, how many girls need to add, or do I need to add, do I need
to add, for the ratio, for the ratio to become 1:2.
1:2.
And this is the ratio of boys to girls.
I'm not switching the ratio on you.
So, right now for every 4 boys, I have 7 girls.
I want to add some girls so that the ratio becomes for
every boy, I have 2 girls.
So how can you do this?
Well, just going back to the basic ratio video, the first
thing we can do we, know the total number of students.
And we know the ratio.
So maybe it'll help us to figure out the number of boys
and girls we have right now.
So our current ratio is 4:7.
So boys, boys, to girls, right now is equal to 4:7.
That means -- what does that mean?
That means for every, if you add up these two.
For every 11 students there are 4 boys and 7 girls.
There are 4 boys, 4 boys and 7 girls.
That's what this ratio tells us.
You give me 11 students of this -- you could split
this classroom into a bunch of groups.
And for every group of 11, you're going to have 4 boys
and 7 girls that's all that tells me.
For every 11 students, 4 boys and 7 girls.
If you split them, every group has the same number
of boys and girls.
Now, how many groups of 11 students there are?
So there are 55 students.
We have 55 students total.
And we're breaking them into groups of 11.
And every group will have the same number
of boys and of girls.
So we have 11 groups.
Sorry, if we divide by 11 students per group.
Students per group.
So how many groups of 11 students do we have?
That means we have 5 groups of 11 students.
5 groups of 11 students.
And we've done this drill before.
Every group has 4 boys and it has 7 girls.
So we have 5 groups.
5 groups each of them has 4 boys, that means we have 5
times 4, which is equal to 20 boys.
And we have 5 times 7, we have 5 groups, 5 times 7,
each group has 7 girls.
Of girls.
So that's equal to 35 girls.
And the numbers add up.
20 plus 35 is 55.
And 20 to 35, 20 to 35, is equal to 4:7.
So it all works out.
So that's what we have right now.
Now, we're going to add to girls to the classroom
to change the ratio.
So let's do this.
So right now we have 20 boys.
We have 20 boys.
And we have 35 girls.
We just figure that out.
And I'm going to add some girls to the classroom.
So I'm going to add some girls to the classroom And my new
ratio, after I add these g girls to the classroom, my new
ratio is going to be 1:2.
1:2.
So I have an equation I have one unknown, I
can just solve for it.
You can almost do this one in your head.
20 is to what, 1 is to 2 as 20 as to what?
You could say, oh, 20 is -- 1 is 1/2 of 20, 20 is 1/2 of 40.
So you could say, oh, it's 40.
So g would be equal to 5.
That's how you would solve it in your head.
If you want to do it algebraically, you
could cross-multiply.
So you get 35 plus g times 1.
So you get 35 plus g is equal to 2 times 20.
Is equal to 40, which is essentially what
we did in our head.
We said, hey, this thing has to be equal to forty.
So, if you subtract 35 from both sides, you
get g is equal to 5.
So if you add 5 girls to your classroom, you're going
to have 40 girls.
So then you'd have 40 girls.
And you have 20 boys.
And your ratio is 20:40, which is 2:4, which is
the same thing is 1:2.
And we've done our problem.