Question

I want to know if I got the correct answer to this problem. It’s number 8. I came up with an answer of 6.

Answer 1

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

`\begin{gathered} \text{Average}=(16)/(2) \\ \text{Average}=8\text{ fish (per bowl)} \end{gathered}`

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.

`\begin{gathered} \text{Number of bowls}=(48)/(8) \\ \text{Number of bowls}=6 \end{gathered}`

A quicker and more straightforward method is simply to set up an equation using the values given as ratios. This is shown below;

`(16)/(2)=(48)/(x)`

Cross multiply and you'll have;

`\begin{gathered} x=(2*48)/(16) \\ x=(48)/(8) \\ x=6 \end{gathered}`

Therefore;

ANSWER:

`x=6`