Question

A scout troop is going hiking. They have 75 energy bars, 35 energy drinks, and 45 bottles of water. If each scout gets the same amount of supplies with none left over, what is the largest possible # of scouts in the troop?

Answer 1

Well to this you would have to simplify the ratio first

75:35:45

That can be

15:7:9

So that means thayt each troop would get 15 enegery bars, 7 drinks and 9 bottles of water

Well if you were to keep repeating that process or just do a proportion you would get 5 total troops.

15:7:9

75:35:45

15*5 is 75

7*5 is 35

9*5=45

So 5 troops