The ratio of winning raffle tickets to losing raffle tickets is 4 to 9. If Mr. Tucker purchases 117 raffle tickets, how many winning tickets can he expect to have?

Answer 1

First, we need to determine the total number of parts in the ratio of winning tickets to losing tickets, which is 4 + 9 = 13 parts.

Next, we need to find out how many parts make up one ticket, which is 117 tickets divided by 13 parts = 9 tickets per part.

Since there are 4 parts representing winning tickets, Mr. Tucker can expect to have 4 parts x 9 tickets per part = 36 winning tickets.