Jorge's friend Kylie has a garden with 100 flowers in it. Kylie's garden contains tulips and daisies. Is it possible for Kylie's garden to have the same ratio of tulips to daisies as Jorge's garden? Explain why or why not.

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Yes, Kylie's can have the same ratio of tulips to daisies as that of Jorge

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Complete question

Jorge planted flowers in his garden. He planted one row of 12 tulips

and one row of 36 daisies. Jorge's friend Kylie has a garden with 100 flowers in it. Kylie's garden contains tulips and daisies. Is it possible for Kylie's garden to have the same ratio of tulips to daisies as Jorge's garden? Explain why or why not

Solution

Ratio of Tulip to daises in Jorge garden is 12:36 = 1:3

Here the common factor is 12 for numerator and denominator i.e 4 * 3 or 2, 2, 3

Given, Jorge's friend Kylie has a garden with 100 flowers, 100 is divisible by 4 but not 3.

Hence, if we take  Ratio of Tulip to daises in Jorge garden as 3:9 (by only removing common factor 4), then the Ratio of Tulip to daises in Kylie  garden will have the same ratio is that of Jorge'sgarden

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