Ivan is an artist. He creates 1 sculpture for every 5 paintings. If he has created 45 paintings, how many sculptures has he created?
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given:
Ivan creates 1 sculpture for every 5 paintings.
Determine how many sculptures has he created if he created 45 paintings:
Solution:
The given can be expressed in ratio form as the ratio of sculpture to painting.
= 1:5
Since we know that every 5 painting there is 1 sculpture, in order to determine how many sculpture was created when Ivan made 45 paintings, simply divide 45 by 5.
= 45/5
= 9
Ivan created 9 sculptures.