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When cooking my turkey for Thanksgiving I planned on 1 1/2 pounds of turkey per person, which is the rate. The ratio would be 1.5:1 and I would scale that up to buy a 12 pound turkey for the 8 people coming to dinner. I can see how this could easily be framed as a composed unit. The part/part would be 1.5:1, but I am not exactly sure how I would make this into a part/whole comparison….