Question

A juice mixture is 3 parts pineapple juice to 5 parts orange juice. For every pitcher of the mixture, what fraction of the pitcher is each type of juice?

Answer 1

3/8 is pineapple juice
5/8 is orange juice

Answer 2

So 3 parts pineapple juice to 5 parts orange juice

That is a total of 8 parts

the pineapple is 3/8 of the pitcher

the orange juice is 5/8 of the pitcher