Question

Joy is making a fruit salad. For every 2 cups of blueberries that Joy uses in the fruit salad, she uses 3 cups of strawberries. If Joy wants to use 6 cups of blueberries in the fruit salad, how many cups of strawberries will she need to use? Use Scratchpad to draw a tape diagram to show your work.

Answer 1

Answer:

Joy will need to use 9 cups of strawberries for 6 cups of blueberries.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Cups of blueberries used for 3 cups of strawberry = 2

Ratio of cups of blueberry to strawberry = 2:3

Joy wants to use 6 cups of blueberries.

Let,

x be the cups of strawberry for 6 cups of blueberries.

Ratio of cups of blueberries to strawberries = 6:x

Using proportion;

Ratio of cups of blueberry to strawberry :: Ratio of cups of blueberries to strawberries

Product of extreme = Product of mean

Dividing both sides by 2