Question

A school cafeteria makes cheese sauce for macaroni using 15 cups of Swiss cheese and 17 cups of cheddar cheese. Perry tries to make the sauce for a family party using 5 cups of Swiss and 7 cups of cheddar. Is perry using the correct ratio.explain

Answer 1

No. In order to make the ratio correct you would need to divide both numbers of original recipe by the same number. 15/3=5 but 17/3 is not equal to 7