How do you determine whether a pair of ratios are equivalent or not? (ex. 5/9 and 7/11)

Ateacher noticed 5/8 of the students were wearing either blue shorts or white shorts. write two different ways this could be done.

Write an algebraic expression to match each statement a. four less than 8 times a number b. twice the difference of a number and six c. nine from a number squared

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato