Maths glossary · United Kingdom
Ratio
A comparison of two amounts, written with a colon, the word to, or as a fraction.
A ratio says how much of one thing there is for a given amount of another. Equal ratios can be made by multiplying or dividing both amounts by the same number.
Example: A recipe uses 2 cups of flour for every 1 cup of sugar. The ratio of flour to sugar is 2 to 1, or 2:1.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Multiplication and division.
Related words
- Product: The answer when you multiply numbers.
- Quotient: The answer when you divide.
- Factor: A whole number that divides another whole number exactly, with nothing left over.
- Prime number: A whole number greater than 1 with exactly two factors: 1 and itself.
- Multiple: The result of multiplying a number by a whole number.
- Array: Objects arranged in equal rows and columns.
- Even number: A whole number that can be split into two equal groups with none left over.
- Odd number: A whole number that leaves 1 left over when split into two equal groups.
- Unit rate: A rate that compares an amount to exactly 1 of something.