Question

The middle school band is selling bags of popcorn for a fundraiser.

The ratio of butter popcorn bags to caramel popcorn bags sold is 3 to 5.

If 40 caramel bags have been sold, how many total popcorn bags have been sold?

Answer 1

64 bags of popcorn total

Explanation:

To begin answering this question:

The ratio of butter to caramel is 3 to 5,

The total of caramel is 40

Thus, we must divide the total 40 caramel by the ratio of 5 caramel

This gets us 8

So this means the ratio must be divided by eight to get each total number here is an equation for this:

Total= (3×8)+(3×5)

3 times 8= 24

3 times 5=40 -(we are already given this at the beginning)

Now we add both of these values to get a total number of 64