Emily has treated her Mum to a big box of chocolates for Mother’s Day.
The box of chocolates contains dark, milk and white chocolates.
When Emily’s Mum opens the box, the ratio of dark to milk to white chocolates is 3:2:4.
Emily’s Mum shares the chocolates with her family and they eat 6 of the dark chocolates, none of the milk chocolates and all of the white chocolates.
The ratio of dark to milk chocolates is now 9:8.
Work out how many white chocolates Emily’s family ate.
Answer:
If you multiply the first ratio of 3 : 2 : 4 by 8 you get
24 : 16 : 32
This is the true values of how many of each chocolate there were as if you remove 6 dark chocolate and the white chocolates you get
18 : 16 or 9 : 8
Therefore, Emily’s family ate 32 white chocolates.