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Lesson 1-3
Data Sets and Ratios


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Objective

6.2 The student will describe and compare two sets of data, using ratios, and will use appropriate notations, such as a/b, a to b, and a:b.

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What is the ratio of boys to girls in your class? What is the ratio of total number of teachers to students? Does either of these ratios give you information about your school? What other information would add to someone's assessment of your school?

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  1. Rice Univesity
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Find the Diagonal-Side Ratio of a square.