Example 1
What's the value of x in the following proportion?
Example 2
In a large bowl of Halloween candy, the ratio of Snickers to Skittles is 3:2. If there are 36 Skittles in the bowl, how many total candies are in the bowl?
Example 3
What's the value of x in the following proportion?
Example 4
Six out of every ten orders at the ice cream shop are for some sort of chocolate ice cream (this includes chocolate chip, triple brownie fudge, chocolate cookie dough, and all other chocolaty deliciousness). If the store sells 1230 cones on a particularly busy weekend, about how many of these are not of the chocolate variety?