A bag contians 72 sweets. 16 are apple flavoured and the rest are starbery falvoured.
wirte down the ratio of apple to starbeery sweets in its simplest from.

If there are 72 sweets in total, and 16 of them are apple flavored, then that makes the rest of them strawberry flavored. To find out how many are strawberry you want to subtract 16 from 72.

72-16= 56

That means there are 56 strawberry ones and 16 apple ones.

So the ratio of apple to strawberry would be 16:56.

16:56 simplified would be dividing both by 8.

2:7 would be the simplified version.

Hope this helps ;)

2:7

Step-by-step explanation:

First get the number of strawberry flavored sweets.

Let the number of strawberry flavored sweets be x

Given total number of sweets = 72

Apple flavored = 16

The rest are strawberry flavored.

Therefore,

16 + A = 72

Subtract 16 from both sides

16 - 16 + A = 72 - 16

A = 56

Strawberry flavored sweets in the bag is 56

Ratio of apple to strawberry sweets = number of apple sweets divided by number of strawberry sweets.

That’s

16/56

Divide the numerator and denominator by 4

4/14

Now divide both by 2

2/7

The ratio of apple to strawberry = 2:7

2 5/8 is the final answer! : )