Question

At a city water purification plant, water is mixed with a release agent in a ratio of 8:1. You are using 32 ounces of water. How many ounces of the release agent should you mix with the water?

Answer 1

We have been given that at a city water purification plant, water is mixed with a release agent in a ratio of 8:1.

Let x be amount of release agent that should be mixed with the 32 ounces of water. We can write an equation by our given information as:

$\frac{8}{1} =\frac{32}{x}$

Upon cross multiplication we will get,

$8x=32$

$x=\frac{32}{8} =4$

Therefore, we should mix 4 ounces of the release agent to 32 ounces of water.