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GRE Quant Problem Solving
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If there are 3/4 apples as oranges and 5 times oranges as bananas.What is the ratio of apples to bananas ?

I solve this question by : apples= 3/4 oranges and oranges =5 bananas.
So, 4 apples = 3 oranges
to equate the value of oranges so we be able to compare, I multiplied the oranges by 3. So we have, 3 oranges = 15 bananas
So, we have 4 apples to 15 banana

The correct answer is 15 to 4 not 4 to 15 … What is the thing that I am missing ?

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https://gmatclub.com/forum/if-the-ratio-of-apples-to-bananas-is-4-to-3-and-the-ratio-of-bananas-216157.html

Your answer makes sense.

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The explanation is GMAT club doesn’t answer my question. I discovered that to compare Ratios … the apples and bananas coefficient must be one.

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I think you went wrong in the first expression, its A/O=3/4 so 3 Apples for 4 oranges and O/B=5/1
so now we want to equal the orange ratio for both ratio, so we multiply first ratio by 5 and second one by 4, we get A/O= 15/20 and O/B= 20/4 so A/B= 15/4

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That would still be a 4:15 ratio, which is OP’s exact answer.