Thread: Proportion

A restaurant owner is told, to keep his license, the ratio of his liquor sales to food sales cannot exceed 2.5:1. If the restaurant has $50,000 in food sales, how much liquor slaes can it have?

Is this correct?:

2.5___50000
--- =-------
1______x

therefore:2.5x=50000

x=$20,000 in liquor sales?!?

Originally Posted by bigstarz

A restaurant owner is told, to keep his license, the ratio of his liquor sales to food sales cannot exceed 2.5:1. If the restaurant has $50,000 in food sales, how much liquor slaes can it have?...

Hello, bigstarz,

I read your problem like this:

Originally Posted by bigstarz

...the ratio of his liquor sales to food sales...2.5 : 1

In my opinion it means:
. Plug in the values you know and you'll get:

$ $.

Greetings

EB

your right earboth, I should have read the instructions more carefully.