Question

mike wants to make a meatloaf. his recipe uses a total of 3 pounds of meat

if he use a 3 to 1 ratio of beef pork, how much pork will he use? enter the answer as a mixed number in the simplest form

Answer 1

I assume you mean
3 to 1 ratio of beef to pork

they tell us he uses total of 5 pounds of meat
(which means the sum of the beef+pork is 5)

to answer
how much pork ?
we need a ratio of pork to total (not beef to pork)
we get total by adding up the 3 and 1 in 3 to 1 ratio
we get 4

write the ratio as a fraction
\[ \frac{1}{4} = \frac{pork}{total} \]
fill in 5 for total, and solve for pork
\[ \frac{1}{4} = \frac{pork}{5} \]

Answer 2

@phi this the same question but different pounds