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What is the ratio of the number of beaks to the number of legs the chickens and the sheep have on this farm?

Number of Chickens:8
Number of Sheep:14
need it to be simplified

Respuesta :

So the chickens have 1 beak and 2 legs and the sheep have 4 legs.

So since there are 8 chickens we know that there are 8 beaks

If we multiply 2 legs times 8 chickens we get 16

If we multiply 4 legs times 14 sheep we get 56

The number of legs is 16+56=72

So we have 8 beaks and 72 legs or 8:72

Divide both sides by 8 to simplify and you get 1:9 as the answer