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To make her fruit punch for the end-of-year schoolcelebration, Yasmin uses 4 cups of papaya juice for every 6cups of pineapple juice. If Yasmin already has 24 cups ofpineapple juice, how many cups of papaya juice will she needto make the fruit punch?

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For the Fruit punch

Yasmin uses 4 cups of papaya juice for every 6 cups of pine apple juice

i.e.


\begin{gathered} 4\text{ cups of Papaya juice required =6 cups of Pineapple} \\ or \\ \text{ 6 cups of Pineapple}=4\text{ cups of Papaya juice required} \\ \text{then for 1 cups of pineapple juice,} \\ 1\text{ cup of Pineapple Juice=}(4)/(6)Cups\text{ of Papaya juice} \end{gathered}

Since, Yasmin has already 24 cups of juice, then for the number of cups of Papaya juice, we multiply the number of Papaya cups reuquire for 1 cup of pineapple juice by 24.


\begin{gathered} 24\text{ Cups of Pineapple, required =}(4)/(6)*24\text{ Cups of Papaya Juice} \\ \text{Number of Cups of Papaya juice=4}*4 \\ \text{Number of Cups of Papaya juice=16 Cups} \end{gathered}

So, for the fruit punch,

16 Cups of Papaya juice needed for 24 cups of Pineapple Juice.

Answer :

16 Cups of Papaya juice

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