Practise translating recipes, sharing, scale diagrams and linked quantities into ratios or proportional calculations.
Jess makes salad dressing by mixing lemon juice and olive oil in the ratio 2: 5 by volume. She uses 0.5 litres of lemon juice.
Salad dressing is made by mixing lemon juice and olive oil in the ratio 2: 5 by volume.
The cost of lemon juice is $ 13.50 per litre.
The cost of olive oil is $ 18 per litre.
Work out the ratio
cost of lemon juice in the salad dressing : cost of olive oil in the salad dressing Give your ratio in its simplest form.
Cost ratio:
Final answer:
M1 oe for any multipliers in the ratio 2:5.
A1.
A1 accept 1:3.33… or 0.3:1.
SC B1 for 3:4.