You are making a salad. the ratio of olives to croutons is 5: 3. you put 12 croutons in your salad. how many olives do you put in your salad?

Hello user :)

If the ratio of olives to croutons is 5:3 and there are 12 croutons, there will be 20 olives

Here is how we know

5(olives) : 3 (croutons)

X (olives) : 12 (croutons)

So if we pay attention, we see that 12 is a multiple of 3. When we divide 12 by 3, we get 4

Knowing that the olives will have the same solution, multiplying 5 and 4 gets us 20, our answer

Hope this helps :)

~Celia

There would be 20 olives because for every 5 olives there’s 3 croutons so 12/3 is 4 and 4•5 is 20.