Name
Date
Ratios in the Garden
You can use ratios to describe a garden
with different types of plants. Look
Flowers
at the plan of the garden at the right.
Tomatoes
The garden contains flowers, lettuce,
8 ft
and tomatoes.
Lettuce
What is the ratio of the area
1.
of the lettuce to the area of the
entire garden?
15 ft
What is the ratio of the area of the flowers
2.
to the area of the lettuce?
Suppose the area planted with tomatoes was doubled. What would be the ratio of the
3.
area with tomatoes to the area of the entire garden? Explain how you found your answer.
Now plan a new garden. You want
4.
the ratio of lettuce to flowers to
tomatoes to be 5 : 4 : 3. Use the
grid at the right to draw the plan
8 ft
of your garden.
15 ft
Explore It Is there only one
5.
possible way to draw the garden
plan in exercise 4? Explain
how you know.