Ratios and Rates in Scripture

Ratios and Rates in Scripture
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Ratios/Rates Recap

Ratios represent the comparison of ? quantities

Rates represent the comparison of 2 ? quantities

Unit rates compare a quantity to ?

Ratios/Rates Recap

Ratios represent the comparison of 2 quantities

Rates represent the comparison of 2 DIFFERENT quantities

Unit rates compare a quantity to 1

Open Ended

In 1 Samuel 18:7, it says "As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

What is the simplified ratio of David's number to Saul's?

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2 Chron 2:18 "He picked 70,000 of them to carry loads, 80,000 to cut stones in the mountains, and 3,600 men to see that the people did their work."

What is the ratio of men that cut stones to men that carried loads? (Simplify!)

Multiple Choice

What is the rate of atonements per year in Exodus 30:10?

"And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements"

• 1 time per year

• 0 times per year

• 3 times per year

Multiple Choice

What is the rate of offering prescribed for lambs in Numbers 28:3?

 ^"Say to them: ‘This is the food offering you are to present to the Lord: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day"

• 1 lamb per year

• 2 lambs per year

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1 Kings 7:24 says, "Gourds went around the top of the pool. There were ten of them for every cubit. The gourds were in two rows, and made right in with the pool."

How many gourds were there per cubit?