Question

A fast-food restaurant sold 54 burgers with cheese. If the ratio of burgers sold with cheese compared to without cheese was 9: 5, how many burgers did they sell total?

Answer 1

Explanation:

We can write an relationship for this as:

3

:

2

→

24

:

b

Where

b

is the number of burgers sold without cheese.

We can rewrite the relationship as an equation and solve for

b

:

3

2

=

24

b

2

3

=

b

24

24

×

2

3

=

24

×

b

24

48

3

=

24

×

b

24

16

=

b

b

=

16

The restaurant would of sold

16

burgers without cheese with the information provided in the problem.