According to the information given in the exercise:
- Group A contains a total of 155 people.
- One-fifth of that people will be selected to win $20 fuel cards.
- The total number of people in Group B is 686.
Then, you can determine that the number of people that will be selected to win $20 fuel cards is:
[tex]winners_A=\frac{1}{5}(155)=31[/tex]Therefore, the number of nonwinners in Group A is:
[tex]N.winners_A=155-31=124[/tex]You know that Group B will receive the same number of fuel cards. Therefore, its number of nonwinners is:
[tex]N.winners_B=686-31=655[/tex]Knowing all this information, you can set up the following ratio of nonwinners in Group A to nonwinners in Group B after the selections are made:
[tex]\frac{124}{655}[/tex]Hence, the answer is:
[tex]\frac{124}{655}[/tex]