Sunday, February 14, 2010

ratio commercial

this commercial shows that you can buy a 32" tv for 248$ to a 42" tv for 448$. The ratio would be $248:$448.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Ratio Blog- Sean Gallagher's

The thing that I chose to do was inside a car commercial for a Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. In this commercial, it talks about how the car gets an estimated 20 miles per gallon in the city. This is quite amazing for a car of this size and also helps the environment a lot. The 20 miles per gallon would be represented by an equation that looks like this, 20/1 or 20:1.

(P.S. I know I told you I would do this during my study hall after our class, but my computer wouldn't work, sorry!)

Ratio Commercial

This is an ad for photography saying basically that their product is bigger than others. Their ratio is 22:3.

Ratios in LIfe- Imon


• This is a kmart ad, advertising simple every day things as ratios. Such as, two 6-packs of soda for $5 or 2/5. Meaning, for every 2 packs of soda you buy it will cost $5. This is similar to 14 packs of soda for $35

Ratios in life

This article is about gender disparity higher education. It is a concern to many that there is an uneven gender ratio among schools, and the assumption that girl students need boy student to have a successful learning environment because many years ago girls only looked to get married, and did not want to further their education. UNC for example, has more female students than male students, even though it is a school that previously didn't admit women at all. This article was a very good example of a real life ratio: boys to girls in higher education.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/content/gender-ratio-article-was-offensive-heterosexist

Ratio Article

In the article on New York Times.com, a chef teaches people about ratios in cooking. Throughout the article the chef discusses different ratios that are used when cooking. He talks about several different ratios such as, 5:1, which tells the ratio of flour to water when baking bread.

http://events.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/dining/reviews/29book.html

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

ratio commercial

In this awareness video for eating disorders, the ratios 1:2 and 1:3 are used to communicate that 1 out of every 2 girls and 1 out of every 3 boys have unhealthy eating habits.

Trident Ratio Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_Jk1zLisg
This is a 1978 commercial; showing how ratio's in advertising date back. The Advertisement says that "4 out of 5 dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum". This is a ration of 4:5. This means for every 5 dentists questioned 4 recommend sugarless gum.

Ratio Cholesterol

This article represents the ratio of bad cholesterol to the cholesterol total

Mac Advertisement


On the apple website there is an advertisement comparing all of the macbooks so the buyer can find the one that's best for them. For example, a 13inch macbook is $1199, a 15inch macbook is $1699, and a 17inch macbook is $2499. 1199:1699:2599 (cost) or 13:15:17 (inches).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTvwdzgi1Q&feature=related

This video is about the ratio of different amount of Hz used in a TV per-second to get the best "refresh rate". For example 240 Hz creates a better picture than 60 Hz.

16X9 Factor

This article describes how widescreen televisions today have a 16 to 9 ratio. This mean that for every 16 units long, the television will be units high. This differs from the original television of 4 to 3 ratio. This ratio gives the television its name because it is almost twice as wide as it is high.

http://hometheater.about.com/cs/television/a/16x9tvfactor.htm

2 for 1

http://www.restaurantdiscountvouchers.co.uk/2009/01/12/2-for-1-at-burger-king-across-the-uk/

In this ad, Burger King says that for every Angus/Bacon Double Cheese burger one buys they can get one more burger for free. The ratio they are advertising is 1:1 (1 burger : 1 burger), or 2:1 because for every 2 burgers you buy, you pay the price of 1 burger.

Article with ratio

This article says that consumers prefer to buy hp computers 5:1 over dell. This means that for every 5 hp computers sold 1 dell computer is sold.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/consumers-prefer-hp-hpq-computers-to-dell-dell-5-to-1-analyst