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They planted twenty tomato seedlings, and measured their height once per week, until they were mature tomato plants.</p>\n<p>The average height of the seedlings on the day they were planted was&nbsp; $\\var{s_ht}$ cm, and the mature plants reached an average height of&nbsp; $\\var{m_ht}$ m.&nbsp;</p>", "advice": "<p>Did you estimate what the answer should be and eliminate obviously wrong answers first?</p>\n<p>When writing a ratio, the quantities must be in the same units, then the proportion should be fully simplified.</p>\n<p>The seedling height is given in centimetres while the mature height is given in metres.</p>\n<p>The larger unit should be converted to the smaller unit (to avoid decimals numbers), so convert the measurement in metres (average mature height) to centimetres.</p>\n<p>There are&nbsp; $100$ centimetres in&nbsp; $1$ metre, so we multiply&nbsp; $\\var{m_ht}$ by&nbsp; $100$.</p>\n<p>$\\var{m_ht} \\text{ m} \\times 100 = \\var{m_ht_cm}$ cm.</p>\n<p>So the ratio of average seedling height to average mature height is&nbsp; $\\var{s_ht} : \\var{m_ht_cm}$. 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