Ratio of distance of the school from Mary's home to the distance of the school from Jhon's home is $2 : 1$ .
a) Who lives nearer to the school?
b) Complete the following table which shows some possible distance that Mary and Jhon could live from the school.

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Since,
$\begin{matrix} R a t i o o f d i s t a n c e o f s c h o o l f r o m M a r y^{'} s h o m e t o t h e d i s t a n c e o f t h e s c h o o l f r o m J o h n^{'} s m o h e = 2 : 1 ∴ \frac{D i s t a n c e o f M a r y^{'} s h o m e t o s c h o o l}{D i s t a n c e o f J o h n^{'} s h o m e t o s c h o o l} = \frac{2}{1} D i s t a n c e o f M a r y^{'} s h o m e t o s c h o o l = 2 \times d i s t a n c e o f J o h n^{'} s h o m e t o s c h o o l S o, M a r y l i v e a t t w i c e a s m u c h a s d i s t a n c e a s J o h n ∴ J o h n l i v e n e a r e r t o s c h o o l . \end{matrix}$

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Ratio of distance of the school from Mary's home to the distance of the school from Jhon's home is 2:1.a) Who lives nearer to the school?b) Complete the following table which shows some possible distance that Mary and Jhon could live from the school.

Since,RatioofdistanceofschoolfromMary′shometothedistanceoftheschoolfromJohn′smohe=2:1∴DistanceofMary′shometoschoolDistanceofJohn′shometoschool=21DistanceofMary′shometoschool=2×distanceofJohn′shometoschoolSo,MaryliveattwiceasmuchasdistanceasJohn∴Johnlivenearertoschool.

Ratio of distance of the school from Mary's home to the distance of the school from Jhon's home is $2 : 1$ .
a) Who lives nearer to the school?
b) Complete the following table which shows some possible distance that Mary and Jhon could live from the school.