Question

A florist is preparing a flower arrangement for a wedding. The client wants 6 roses for every 2 carnations in the flower arrangement. If the florist has used 46 carnations in all, how many roses did she use?

Answer 1

Use a proportion to solve this

For every 6 roses there is 2 carnations can be written as \(\large\frac{6}{2}\)

Now the question is asking in the place in which the florist has 46 carnations...

\(\large[\frac{roses}{carnations}]=>\frac{6}{2}=\frac{42}{?}\)

Do you know how to solve this?