Lets say you're a restaurant owner and you're buying food for your business. Would it be better to use a percent or ratio to figure out how much you need to buy?
Both are reasonable, but I think a ratio would be better. You would need a certain amount of food to make a certain amount of a finished dish. An example would be that you would need half a pound of ground beef and three small tortillas to make a dish for a customer. The ratio would be 0.5:3.
A percentage would be correct also. You can use a percent of your overall money to buy certain products. If you own a Mexican restaurant, you could spend 25% of your money on tortillas, 35% on rice, 10% on assorted meat, and 30% on condiments. This will add up to 100% of your spending money and keep your restaurant in order.
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