Belleview High School has 12

chaperones for 120
students on a field trip. Which of the following schools has the same ratio of chaperones to students?

1 answer

To find the same ratio of chaperones to students as Belleview High School, we start with the ratio they have:

Belleview High School has 12 chaperones for 120 students.

We can express this ratio as:

\[ \frac{12 \text{ chaperones}}{120 \text{ students}} = \frac{12}{120} \]

Now, simplifying the fraction:

\[ \frac{12}{120} = \frac{1}{10} \]

This means that for every 1 chaperone, there are 10 students.

Now, we need to find other schools that maintain this same ratio of 1 chaperone for every 10 students. This can be expressed in other forms as:

  • 2 chaperones for 20 students
  • 3 chaperones for 30 students
  • 4 chaperones for 40 students
  • 5 chaperones for 50 students
  • and so on...

If you have a list of other schools with their respective numbers of chaperones and students, you can check which ones match the 1:10 ratio indicated above. Look for schools where the number of students is 10 times the number of chaperones to find an equivalent ratio.