8) Alfy and Becky share 32 counters in the ratio 5:3.How many does Alfy get?

We are starting with finding out how much each individual part is equal to. To do this, we add how many parts they are divided in, which is 5 plus 3. Now that we know that there are 8 parts, we can simply divide the counters by 8, which is 4. To see how many counters Alfy gets, we multiply the amount of counters a part is, which is 4, with how many parts he gets, which is 3. 3 times 4 equals with 12.