Question

Josie makes fruit punch by mixing fruit juice and lemonade in the ratio 3 : 2 She needs to make 40 litres of punch for a party. How much of each ingredient does she need?

Fruit juice = litres
Lemonade = litres [4]​

Answer 1

Fruit Juice = 24 litres

Lemonade = 16 litres

Explanation:

So, the ratio:
`3:2` really just means: "for every every 3 litres of fruit punch, there is 2 litres of lemonade.

Or in other words, every 3 litres of fruit punch, the entire mixture of both fruit punch and lemonade will be 5 litres, since there is 3 litres and 2 litres.

So dividing the 40 litres, by this 5 litres, we get 8. So we know there will be "8" of 3 litres of fruit punch, and "8" of 2 litres of lemonade.

Thus there will be 24 litres of fruit punch, and 16 litres of lemonade.