Question

In a bag of trail mix, there are 5 cups of nuts for every 2 cups of chocolate candies. If there are 12 cups of nuts in a bag of trail mix, how many cups of chocolate candies will there be? ​

Answer 1

3 cups of peanuts and 2 cups of chocolate would make 5 cups of trail mix.

So ratio of peanuts to trail mix would be 2/5. We can set up a proportion to solve

2/5 = 9/x

by cross multiplying we get...

2x=45

x=22.5 cups of trail mix