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saagarjha on May 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so

It really depends on the two things being compared. The ratio of boys to girls is 1:2, but the ratio of boys (implicitly: to the total) is 1:3.

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