Question

Maria mixes cream and milk in a ratio of 2 parts cream and 3 parts milk.

She uses 8 liters of cream in her mixture.
How many liters of mixture in
all does she make?
How many liters of milk does she use for the mixture?

Answer 1

To answer your questions, Maria uses 8 liters of cream in her mixture and a total of 11 liters of mixture in all. This means that she uses 3 liters of milk for the mixture.

Answer 2

If Maria uses 2 parts cream and 3 parts milk, then for every 2 parts of cream, she uses 3 parts of milk.

Since she uses 8 liters of cream, we can find the total volume of mixture by finding the equivalent volume of milk that she used.

To find the equivalent volume of milk, we multiply the volume of cream by the ratio of milk to cream:

8 liters * (3 parts milk) / (2 parts cream) = 12 liters

So Maria used 8 liters of cream and 12 liters of milk for a total volume of 20 liters.