Question

mike wants to make meat loaf his recipe uses a total of 3 pounds of meat if he uses a 3 to 1 ratio of beef to pork how much pork will he use? enter your answer as a mixed number in simpilest terms

Answer 1

if you have a ratio 3:1 where there are 3 parts of one thing to 1 part of another, you can change it to 3:4 (meaning 3 parts out of a total of 4 parts) for the beef
or 1:4 for the ratio of pork to the total

this means you can say
1:4 as x:3
where x is the amount of pork to use in 3 pounds total