Weegy: The ratio of female to male students is 12:16. In simplest for it is 3:4.
User: how did you get your answer
Weegy: Just like reducing fractions. Whatever you do to the first number you must do to the second, so you need to find out what each can be divided by evenly. 12/4 = 3 and 16/4 = 4. Therefore you can reduce 12:16 to 3:4.
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