Question

If a humming bird were to get all of its food from a feeder, then a 16 ounce nectar feeder could feed about 80 hummingbirds a day. How many hummingbirds would you expect to feed with a 12 ounce feeder?

Answer 1

60 hummingbirds can be fed by a 12 ounce feeder.

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem, we can make a ratio table. For every 16 ounce feeder, 80 hummingbirds can be fed. However, we want to calculate how many hummingbirds can be fed by a 12 ounce feeder. We can get a common denominator for our ratio to solve this. 16:80 divided by 4:4 is 4:20. Since 4 is a factor of 12, we can multiply 4 by 3 to get 12. However, what we do to one section we do to the other. 20 x 3 is 60. 60 hummingbirds can be fed by a 12 ounce feeder.