A pattern has 6 blue triangles to every 42 yellow triangles. What is the ratio in lowest form of yellow triangles to blue triangles?

7:1

Step-by-step explanation:

The original ratio was 6:42. To simplify this, we can find the greatest common factor for 6 and 42 by listing out their factors.

6: 1, 2, 3, 6

42: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42

6 is the greatest common factor they share. We now need to divide each side by this number. This leaves us with 1:7. Since they want us to write the ratio in yellow triangles to blue triangles instead of blue triangles to yellow, we just need to flip the ratio to 7:1.