Alex is making homemade cereal. For every 3 cups of granola he adds 1 cup of cranberries. If he uses a total of 3 cups of dried cranberries, how many cups of granola are in the cereal.
3/1 = x/3
Cross multiply and solve for x.
Is it 1/9
No. That answer doesn't make sense, does it?
3/1 = x/3
Cross multiply and solve for x.
x = 9
He has 9 cups of granola for 3 cups of cranberries.
thanks
You're welcome, Amy.
To find out how many cups of granola are in the cereal, we need to calculate the ratio of granola to cranberries.
According to the information given, for every 3 cups of granola, Alex adds 1 cup of cranberries. This ratio can be written as 3:1.
Now, let's determine how many times the 1 cup of cranberries goes into the 3 cups of dried cranberries that Alex used. We can do this by dividing the amount of dried cranberries by the ratio:
3 cups dried cranberries รท 1 cup cranberries = 3 times
Since the ratio is 3:1, this means that Alex used the ratio 3 times.
Therefore, for every 3 cups of granola, there are 3 times the ratio of cranberries. Since each ratio includes 3 cups of granola, we can conclude that there are 3 cups of granola in the cereal.