Question

The ratio of water to orange juice to cranberry juice in a punch bowl should be 2:5:3.
If Clementine has 24 ounces of cranberry juice and wants to strictly follow the recommened ratio, how many ounces of punch can she make?
(Assume she has an unlimited suplly of orange juice and water.) Explain how you would figure this out.

Answer 1

Water= 2
Orange juice= 5
Cranberry Juice= 3

Since the cranberry juice is 24 ounces, and 3 ounces in the other ratio, we know that 3*8=24, so we would multiply all of the others by 8. 

Cranberry juice: 3*8=24
Orange juice: 5*8= 40
Water: 2*8=16

So our ratio would be 16:40:24