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1. Celeste is making fruit baskets for her service club to take to a local hospital. The directions say to fill the boxes using 5 apples for every 6 oranges. Celeste is filling her baskets with 2 apples for every 3 oranges.

Complete the tables to find equivalent ratios.

Compare the ratios. Is Celeste using the correct ratio of apples to oranges?

Solution

As we can see from the two tables, if the total number of fruits to be filled in the basket was 55, he would have to fill 25 Apples and 30 Oranges (Apples and Oranges in the ratio of 5:6).

But he is actually filling 22 Apples and 33 Oranges (Apples and Oranges in the ratio of 2:3). So Celeste is not using the correct ratio of Apples and Oranges and must revert to the ratio of 6 Oranges for every 5 Apples.