Introduction to Tape Diagrams
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Introduction to Tape Diagrams
A store sells 10 comedy DVDs for every 90 action DVDs.
This relationship can be shown using a tape diagram. In the tape diagram, each unit (each square) represents 10 DVDs. There is 1 unit of comedy DVDs and 9 units of action DVDs.
There are different ways to arrange the tape diagram. You can see the ratio between the two quantities of DVDs more easily in Tape Diagram 2.
- What is the ratio of action DVDs to comedy DVDs?
- What is the ratio of comedy DVDs to action DVDs?