Rice Ratios… Gotta love that GED Math.

Ratios are pretty important for the GED math test. And if you can use ‘em ever day, like when you’re cooking, you’ll exercise your GED thinking muscles. It’s pretty easy, right? A ratio just shows the relationship between two numbers. 1:2 ratio means, if you got 1 of something, you have 2 of something else. So not all GED test stuff is hard.So, in a 1:2 ratio, the second thing is always two times the first thing. Get it? If I got 3 of the first thing, I got 6 of the second thing. If I got 5.23 of the first thing, I got 10.46 of the second thing. (Get some GED street math practice by doubling numbers in your head.)

If this was a GED question, it’s be a breeze. If I got 1-1/2 coffee mugs of rice, and I need a 1:2 ratio of rice to water, then I need 3 coffee mugs of water.

If I had 3/4 coffee mugs of rice, I’d need 1-1/4 of water, or (2) 3/4 coffee mugs. Get it?

If I had 2-2/3 coffee mugs of rice, I’d need 5-1/3 (4 + 4/3) coffee mugs of water.

Pretty easy. A 1:2 ratio means the second thing’s always 2 times the first thing. I know you’ve got ratios totally down, now, so if you see any on the GED test, you’ll know what to do.
And the recipe works pretty good, too. I just put 1-1/2 coffee mugs of rice and 3 coffee mugs of water in a big bowl, nuke them for 10 minutes, turn it down to 50% and nuke ‘em for 15-20 minutes. Then, bingo, I got rice.

Don’t worry, I ain’t gonna start cooking all the time.

Next time, let’s get back to these elections that’s comin’ up… I wanna start applyin’ some of that GED math to some real important real life… Because the GED test is pretty important, but so’s the real world, like the elections, right?

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