Question

To get a particular shade of green color, Ronald, a researcher,

mixes 6 containers of green dye to every 3 containers of water. If he
finally used 24 containers of green dye, how many total containers did
Ronald use? Please help me!!

Answer 1

12 containers of water

Step-by-step explain:

Answer 2

36

Explanation:

the data we have is:

coontainers of green dye containers of water

6 ⇒ 3

and we need to know how many containers of water he would use for 24 containers of green dye, and then sum this results to know how many containers did he used in total.

coontainers of green dye containers of water

6 ⇒ 3

24 ⇒ x

and we solve for x using rule of three: multiply cross quantities and divide by the remaining amount:

x = 24*3/6

x = 72/6

x = 12

so he used 12 containers of water for the 24 containers of green dye, which in total of containers is:

12 + 24 = 36

Answer: 36 containers in total.