Juli is making punch for a party She mixes fruit juice and lemonade together The ratio is 1to2 and she needs to make 24 liters of punchIn liters how much fruit juice and lemonade will she need?

Answer 1

Let x be the amount of fruit juice and y be the amount of lemonade. You can write two equations:

y = 2x ,expresses the 1 to 2 ratio and; x + y = 24 , expresses the total. Then replace y in the second equation by 2x to get;

x + 2x = 24

3x = 24

x = 8

Then from the first equation , y = 16

I assumed more lemonade then juice. If that's not right then let x be lemonade and y be juice.