William and Daphene both have crackers for a snack the ratio of William crackers to daphne is 3:5 if there are 48 crackers in total how many crackers does Daphene have.

Answer 1

The ratio of William's crackers to Daphene's crackers is 3:5. This means that for every 3 crackers William has, Daphene has 5 crackers.

We can set up a proportion to find the number of crackers Daphene has. Let's assign the variable x to represent the number of crackers William has.

Since the ratio is 3:5, we can say that:
3/5 = x/48

Cross-multiplying, we get:
5x = 3 * 48
5x = 144

Dividing both sides by 5, we find:
x = 144 / 5
x = 28.8

Since we can't have a fraction of a cracker, we round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, William has 28 crackers.

Daphene's number of crackers can be found by multiplying William's number by the ratio:
5 * 28 = <<5*28=140>>140 crackers.

Therefore, Daphene has 140 crackers.