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 use?

Answer 1

Answer: 7 14 21

Explanation:

6x___=42 you fill in the blanks

Answer 2

We will use;

21 parts oil

14 parts soy sauce

7 parts Orange

Explanation:

We can have all of these as a ratio

That would be;

3 + 2 + 1 = 6

For oil

3/6 * 42 = 21 parts of oil

For Soy sauce

= 2/6 * 42 = 14 parts soy sauce

For Orange

= 1/6 * 42 = 7 parts orange juice