Question

A recipe for chicken marinade says, ''Mix 3 parts oil with 2 parts soy sauce and 1 part orange juice. ''if you need 42 cups of marinade in all,how much of each ingredient should you see?

Answer 1

Parts of oil in 42 cups of marinade = 21 cups

Parts of soy sauce in 42 cups of marinade = 14 cups

Parts of orange juice in 42 cups of marinade = 7 cups

Explanation:

Given that:

Parts of oil = 3

Parts of soy sauce = 2

Part of orange juice = 1

Total cups of marinade = 42

To find:

How much of each ingredient should be there ?

Solution:

This problem can be solved by taking the ratio of ingredients into account.

The ratio is:

Oil : Soy Sauce : Orange Juice = 3 : 2 : 1

So, we can let the parts of oil =
`3x`

Parts of soy sauce =
`2x`

Parts of orange juice =
`x`

As per the question statement:

`3x+2x+x=42\\\Rightarrow 6x=42\\\Rightarrow x =7`

So, parts of oil in 42 cups of marinade = 3
`*` 7 = 21 cups

Parts of soy sauce in 42 cups of marinade = 2
`*` 7 = 14 cups

Parts of orange juice in 42 cups of marinade = 7 cups