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Course: Grade 6 (VA SOL) > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Visualize equivalent ratios- Ratios with tape diagrams
- Ratios with tape diagrams (part:whole)
- Ratios with tape diagrams
- Equivalent ratio word problems
- Simplify a ratio from a tape diagram
- Equivalent ratios with equal groups
- Ratios and double number lines
- Create double number lines
- Ratios with double number lines
- Relate double number lines and ratio tables
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Simplify a ratio from a tape diagram
In this problem, we have a mixture of yellow and red paint. There are 12 parts yellow and 8 parts red. We want to find the ratio of red paint to the total paint in the mixture. To do this, we add the parts of red and yellow paint together (8 + 12 = 20). The ratio of red paint to total paint is 8:20. Created by Sal Khan.
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- I don't get this(3 votes)
- We are just comparing Mcdonalds colors. It is not red to yellow which is 8 to 12 as he says in0:44. We add 8+12 to get the total which is 20. Red to the total is 8 to 20(2 votes)
- Why are they called "tape" diagrams(1 vote)
- probably because it looks like tape.(2 votes)
- Why do we need ratios?(1 vote)
- Ratios are useful mathematical tools for comparing quantities or sizes of different objects or quantities.(2 votes)
- i dont get how you add the fractions up to make the whole number.(1 vote)
- Are there simplifying ratios like in fractions?(1 vote)
- Yes it is like fractions(1 vote)
- why do we have use tape diagrams(1 vote)
- are these videos required(0 votes)
- They give you energy points(3 votes)
- How do ratios work?(1 vote)
- Ratios compare two numbers, usually by dividing them. If you are comparing one data point (A) to another data point (B), your formula would be A:B. This means you are dividing information A by information B. For example, if A is 5 and B is 10, your ratio will be5:10or 5 to 10.(0 votes)
- I did not get the simplest form part(0 votes)
- you technically don't need to, but basically it's just dividing both of the numbers (it is important to make sure they have the same divisor) until it is the smallest it can be. Hopefully this is helpful!(2 votes)
- How many cubes are there?(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] We're told
that the following diagram describes the volume
of yellow and red paint in an orange mixture. So we can see that for every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12 parts of yellow, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8 parts of red. They ask us, "What is
the ratio of red paint to total paint in the mixture?" So, pause this video and see
if you can have a go at that before we do it together. All right, so if we wanna
think about red paint, it looks like we have every,
we have eight parts red paint, and if we think about the ratio
of that towards total paint, you might be tempted to put a 12 there. But that's not the total paint, that's just the yellow paint. The total paint for every eight parts red, would be the eight parts red
plus the 12 parts yellow. So, it'd be eight plus 12, which is 20. And this is true, the ratio of red paint to the total paint in the mixture is 8:20. Now, you might not always
see it expressed this way, because there's other ways of
writing an equivalent ratio. Some that people would
argue are actually simpler. Another way to think about it is this diagram where we see the red paint, it has eight parts right over here, but we could also describe
it as four groups of two. Just like that, because
eight is divisible by four. And if you divide the 12 parts
of yellow into four groups, it's four groups of three. And you'll see in a second why
this is really interesting, because we were able to break down both of these into four groups. And when you do that,
you see very clearly, hopefully, that for every two parts of red you have three parts of yellow. For every two parts of red,
you have three parts of yellow. Two parts of red, three parts of yellow, and then last but not least, these two parts of red and then
those three parts of yellow. So, for every two parts of red
you have three parts yellow. Now once again, the
ratio that they're asking isn't the ratio of red to yellow, which is two to three, but you could just take one
of these groups and say, all right, for every two parts of red I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 parts of total paint. So, you could say that the ratio is also, for every two parts of red, I have five parts of total paint. And hopefully, this makes
intuitive sense right here. Why these two things are equivalent. If for every eight you have 20 total, well, if you divide that by
four for every two of red, you're going to have five.