Question

Aaron made a bag of trail mix of peanuts, raisins, and

chocolate chips in the ratio of peanuts:raisins:chocolate
chips = 5:3:2. There are 150 raisins in the trail mix.
How many peanuts and chocolate chips are in the trail
mix?

Answer 1

There are 250 peanuts, 150 raisins and 100 chocolate chips in the mix.

Explanation:

First consider the numbers of raisins and of chocolate chips:

3 150

-- = ------ => 3x = 300, so that x = 100. There are 100 chocolate chips and

2 x 150 raisins.

Raisins and peanuts:

5 x

--- = ------- => 3x = 750 after cross multiplication

3 150

then x = 250 peanuts.

There are 250 peanuts, 150 raisins and 100 chocolate chips in the mix.

Answer 2

100 Chocolate chips

250 Peanuts

Explanation: