Question

a bakery made 25 muffins that contained nuts and 25 muffins that did not contain nuts. what is the ratio of the number of muffins without nuts to the total number of muffins? write your answer as a fraction. use a slash ( / ) to separate the numerator and denominator.

Explanation:

Step1: Find number of nut - free muffins

The number of muffins without nuts is 25.

Step2: Find total number of muffins

Total number of muffins = number of muffins with nuts+number of muffins without nuts = 25 + 25=50.

Step3: Find the ratio as a fraction

The ratio of the number of muffins without nuts to the total number of muffins is $\frac{25}{50}=\frac{1}{2}$ (or in slash form 25/50 which simplifies to 1/2). But since we can also just use the non - simplified form as per the problem's instruction to write the answer as a fraction (we can keep it as 25/50 or simplify). But let's follow the calculation: number of nut - free is 25, total is 50, so fraction is 25/50 (or 1/2).

Answer:

25/50 (or 1/2)