## Joy is making a fruit salad. For every 2 cups of blueberries that Joy uses in the fruit salad, she uses 3 cups of strawberries. If Joy wants

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Joy is making a fruit salad. For every 2 cups of blueberries that Joy uses in the fruit salad, she uses 3 cups of strawberries. If Joy wants to use 6 cups of blueberries in the fruit salad, how many cups of strawberries will she need to use

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3 months 2022-02-19T01:08:39+00:00 1 Answer 0 views 0

1. Joy will need to use 9 cups of strawberries for 6 cups of blueberries.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Cups of blueberries used for 3 cups of strawberry = 2

Ratio of cups of blueberry to strawberry = 2:3

Joy wants to use 6 cups of blueberries.

Let,

x be the cups of strawberry for 6 cups of blueberries.

Ratio of cups of blueberries to strawberries = 6:x

Using proportion;

Ratio of cups of blueberry to strawberry :: Ratio of cups of blueberries to strawberries

$$2:3::6:x$$

Product of extreme = Product of mean

$$2*x=3*6\\2x=18$$

Dividing both sides by 2

$$\frac{2x}{2}=\frac{18}{2}\\x=9$$

Joy will need to use 9 cups of strawberries for 6 cups of blueberries.

Keywords: ratio, proportion, division