bills' trail mix has 6 cups of walnuts and 10 cups of cranberries. using the same recipe, how many cups of walnuts go with 15 cups of cranberries
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6/10 = x/15
since 15 is 3/2 as big as 10, you want a number which is 3/2 as big as 6.
To find out how many cups of walnuts go with 15 cups of cranberries, we can set up a proportion based on the given information.
Since the ratio of walnuts to cranberries is constant in the trail mix recipe, we can express it as follows:
6 cups of walnuts / 10 cups of cranberries = x cups of walnuts / 15 cups of cranberries
To find x, we can use cross multiplication. Cross multiplying gives us:
6 cups of walnuts * 15 cups of cranberries = 10 cups of cranberries * x cups of walnuts
90 cups of walnuts = 10 cups of cranberries * x cups of walnuts
Now, we can solve for x by dividing both sides of the equation by the number of walnuts:
x cups of walnuts = 90 cups of walnuts / 10 cups of cranberries
x cups of walnuts = 9 cups of walnuts
Therefore, using the same recipe, 15 cups of cranberries would require 9 cups of walnuts.