Question

Mike wants to make meatloaf. His recipe uses a total of 5 pounds of meat.

if he uses a 3 to 1 ratio of beef to pork, how much pork will he use? Enter your answer as a mixed number in simplest terms

Answer 1

Let beef represent 3x and pork represent x. You jeed 4x to produce 5 pounds of meat. Solve for x.
4x=5
x=5/4
Now you know that there is only 1 x for pork, so you will use 5/4 pounds of pork for 5 pounds of meatloaf2

Answer 2

1
`(1)/(4)`

Explanation: