Question

A recipe for a salad dressing calls for fresh lime juice and honey. The ratio of tablespoons of honey to tablespoons of lime juice is 8:16. According to the recipe, how many tablespoons of honey are needed for every tablespoon of lime juice? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

It would be 2 tablespoons of honey for every tablespoon of lime juice.

Answer 2

you need as much honey as you do lime juice. So the answer is ( 1/2 )