Question

8 Mia makes a cold drink she calls iced punch. She uses vanilla ice cream, grape juice and ginger
ale in the ratio 1:4:5.
Mia has plenty of vanilla ice cream, but only 2250 ml of grape juice and 2750 ml of ginger ale.
She makes as much iced punch as she can with these ingredients.
How much of each ingredient does she use?​

Answer 1

Answer:

She used 550 ml of Vanilla ice cream, 2200 ml of Grape juice, and 2750 ml of Ginger ale.

Step-by-step explanation:

Mia uses vanilla ice cream, grape juice and ginger ale in the ratio 1:4:5

Volume of Vanilla ice cream used/1 = Volume of Grape juice used/4 = Volume of Ginger ale used/5

If she wanted to used full volume of available Grape juice = 2250 ml, then she will require volume of Ginger ale = 2250x5/4 ml = 28125 ml.

But, she only have 2750 ml of Ginger ale.

Therefore, she uses full volume of Ginger ale available = 2750 ml

Therefore, Vanilla ice cream used = 2750/5 ml = 550 ml

And Grape juice used = 2750x4/5 = 2200 ml