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Ms. Johnson and Ms. Siple were folding report cards to send home to parents. The
ratio of report cards Ms. Johnson folded to the number of report cards Ms. Siple folded
is 2:3. At the end of the day, Ms. Johnson and Ms. Siple folded a total of 300 report
cards. How many did each person fold?



Sagot :

300 total / 5 cards at a time
=60 times they folded in the ratio

Ms. Johnson folds 2 cards at a time, if she folded 60 times, she folded 120 cards total.

Ms. Siple folds 3 cards at a time, if she folds 60 times, she folded 180 cards total.