pear juice : cherry juice : and apple juice = 3:1:3 = 3x:x:3x
given: x = 16
so 3x = ????
A truck is carrying pear juice, cherry juice, and apple juice bottles in a ratio of 3:1:3. If there are 16 cherry juice bottles, then how many juice bottles in total are there?
3 answers
3x=48?
yes, 3 x is 48
but
you have
48 + 16 + 48
but
you have
48 + 16 + 48