Step-by-step explanation:
Examples of Ratios In Real Life
Grocery Shopping
The grocery store is a good source of ratios in real life. While looking at the prices of various groceries, you can easily illustrate ratios using two different boxes of cereal. For example, if a 10-ounce box of cereal costs P50 and a 20-ounce box of cereal costs P100, the 20 ounce box is the better value because each ounce of cereal is cheaper. By dividing the number of ounces of cereal by the price, you demonstrate the relationship between amount and size. For the smaller box of cereal, each ounce costs 5 pesos; for the larger box of cereal, each ounce of cereal costs 5 pesos.
Recipes and Cooking
You also use ratios in cooking. The relationships between the amounts of various ingredients in recipes are essential to cooking the most delicious meals. For example, to create the best tasting achiote oil, you combine 1 cup of olive oil with 2 tablespoons of achiote, or orange seeds. This is easy to visualize as a ratio of 1 cup oil to 2 tablespoons seeds.
Vacation Trips
The ubiquitous travel question "Are we there yet?" is another example of ratios. For example, while taking a road trip from Manila to Bulacan, you must travel approximately 90 miles. Assuming the car travels at 60 miles per hour, convert the hour to 60 minutes. Then divide the total miles traveled (90 miles) by 60 minutes to demonstrate that the trip to Bulacan requires one and a half hours by car.
