Question

making 2 pounds of apple jam requires 20 pounds of apples. how many pounds of apples are needed to make 3 pounds of apple jam?

Answer 1

30 pounds of apples becuase the jam to apple ratio is 1 to 10 or because the amount of jam is being increased by 50% so the amount of apples should be increased by 50% to.

Answer 2

First with 20 pounds of apples to make 2 pounds of jam we know that.

So the we subtract 20-10=10, since we want 3 pounds we needed to split it because 3 is an odd number and if 20 apples in 2 pounds then with that we would have 40 pounds of apples for 4 pounds of jam.

So 10 multiplyed my 3 = 30

30 pounds of apples makes 3 pounds of jam.