# Ornamental shrubs

Children committed to planting 240 ornamental shrubs. Their commitment, however, exceeded by 48 shrubs. Write the ratio of actually planted shrubs and commitment by lowest possible integers a/b.

a =  6
b =  5

### Step-by-step explanation:

$b=x\mathrm{/}d=240\mathrm{/}48=5$

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