Question

The ratio of tea drinkers to soda drinkers at a university is 7:4. There are 38 soda drinkers. How many tea drinkers are there?

Show the correct work. Set- up the proportion. Show the correct answer.

Answer 1

Working: Since the ratio is 7 tea drinkers to 4 tea drinkers. We could just do 38/4 which gives us 9.5. Using that value we just go 9.5 x 7. This would give us 66.5 but there cannot be half a person so we must round down unless the question does not require us to do so.

Answer: 66.5/66