mike wants to make meatloaf. His recipe uses a total of 5 pounds of meat.
if he uses a 3 to 1 ratio of beef to pork, how much pork will he use? Enter your answer as a mixed number in simplest terms
Let beef represent 3x and pork represent x. You jeed 4x to produce 5 pounds of meat. Solve for x. 4x=5 x=5/4 Now you know that there is only 1 x for pork, so you will use 5/4 pounds of pork for 5 pounds of meatloaf2