a middle school has a speech club with a total of 36 students. The ratio of girls to boys is 4:5. How many girls are in the speech club? How many boys?
The ratio is 4:5 meaning out of 9 students 4 are girls and 5 are boys. If there are 36 students, 9 will go into 36 four times so if we multiply each number of the ratio by 4 it gives us the answer.
