Question

A shop-keeper mixes 600 ml of orange juice with 900 ml of apple juice to make a fruit drink. Write the ratio of orange juice to apple juice in the fruit drink in its simplest form.

Answer 1

Shopkeeper mixes $600$ ml of orange juice with $900$ ml ofapple juice.

Therefore ratio of orange juice with apple juice is $\frac{600}{900}$

$=\frac{6}{9}$ (Cancel the zeros)

$=\frac{2\times 3}{3\times 3}$

$=\frac{2}{3}$ Cancelling the common terms.

Ratio is $2:3$