A cubic meter of elm is 600kg and a cubic meter of pine is 350kg. What is the ratio of the pine's mass to the elm's mass?

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Kaiden Bray

14 March, 14:49

A cubic meter of elm is 600kg and a cubic meter of pine is 350kg. What is the ratio of the pine's mass to the elm's mass?

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Summer Drake · Answer 1

The ratio from pine to elm is pine/elm

so, pine/elm

1. Plug it in 350/600

2. Simplify 7/12

So there is 7kg of pine to every 11kg of elm. Written as a ratio, it's pine:elm, so 7:11