A movie theater has 24 screens. The ratio of action films to other film is 1:2 in the summer. How many action films are shown?

12:12 would be an even ratio of 1:1 but since you have a ratio of 1:2 you would take away half of the action movies and add it to the other category so the ratio would be 6:18 (1:2 if reduced) meaning 6 action films would be shown.