Question

An office has 40 holidays in a year. Find the ratio of holidays to number of days in a year (assume that there are 365 days in a year).

Answer 1

Required ratio
= No. of holidays:No. of days in a year
= 40:365

Taking out 5 as the common factor, we have

( $8\times 5$ ):( $73\times 5$ )

Hence, 40:365 in its simplest form can be written as 8:73.