The question says that Fred is making a fruit salad the ratio of cups of peaches to cups of cherries is 2:3 how many cups of peaches will feed need to make 60 cups of fruit salad
---Since both of them share the ratio of 2:3,them we can find out the number of cup of peaches required to make 60 cups of salad.
i dont know the exact reason but the formula to problems like this is the actual number which is 5 in this sitaution and then multiply the numbers below it. For the equation i did 5x4x3x2x1 and i got 120