Question

The local food pantry has fourteen cans of green beans, forty-nine cans of corn, fifteen cans of chicken noodle soup, and eight cans of black beans. What is the ratio of cans of green beans to cans of corn in the food pantry? Represent the ratio as a decimal and round it to the nearest hundredth.(1 point

Answer 1

To find the ratio of cans of green beans to cans of corn, we divide the number of green bean cans by the number of corn cans:

14 cans of green beans / 49 cans of corn

Rounding this to the nearest hundredth gives us:

0.29

So the ratio of cans of green beans to cans of corn in the food pantry is approximately 0.29.