The question can be interpreted as follows;
2 bowls contain 16 fish
Therefore, how many bowls would you need to hold 48 fish?
This means, the average in each bowl would be
Next step, you can now divide 48 fish by 8 fish to find out how many bowls of 8 fish in each bowl you would have.
A quicker and more straightforward method is simply to set up an equation using the values given as ratios. This is shown below;
Cross multiply and you'll have;
Therefore;
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