Question

A buffet offers ranch or caesar dressing. The ratio of ranch dressing used to caesar dressing used is 6 : 1. If the buffet uses 24 cases of ranch dressing, how many cases of caesar do they use?

Answer 1

Answer: They used 4 cases of caesar .

Explanation:

Given: The ratio of ranch dressing used to Caesar dressing used is 6 : 1.

Let number of ranch dressing = 6x

Number of Caesar dressing = x

As per given,
`6x=24`

`\Rightarrow\ x=(24)/(6)=4`, which is the number of caser cases.

Hence, they used 4 cases of caesar .