In a bag of trail mix, there are 5 cups of nuts for every 2 cups of chocolate candies. If there are 12 cups of nuts in a bag of

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trail mix, how many cups of chocolate candies will there be?

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Ksenya-84 [330] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-20T00:38:24+03:00

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3 cups of peanuts and 2 cups of chocolate would make 5 cups of trail mix.

So ratio of peanuts to trail mix would be 2/5. We can set up a proportion to solve

2/5 = 9/x

by cross multiplying we get...

2x=45

x=22.5 cups of trail mix

Katarina [22] · Answer 2 · 2022-08-19T22:41:08+03:00

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