Question

Travis is deciding how many nonfiction books, novels, and cookbooks to sell at a book fair.

He wants the ratio of nonfiction books to novels to be 3:2.

He wants the ratio of novels to cookbooks to be 3:1.

Using these ratios, match the number of books required given one number of a different type of book.

Answer 1

Well if the nonfiction books to novels ration is 3:2
we can say that we have x number of nonfiction books and then the relationship would be represented by this equation:
2x = 3y
where x are the number of nonfiction books and y the number of novels.
And for the novels and cookbooks to be 3:1
we can write the equation:
y = 3w
where y are the novels and w the number of cookbooks