In a fruit punch drink, the 3 ingredients are apple juice, orange juice and cranberry juice. If
1
4
of the drink is apple juice and
3
10
is orange juice then write the ratio of cranberry juice to apple juice to orange juice in its simplest form

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Answer:

orange : cranberry : apple : orange

9 : 5 : 6

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the following ratios (fraction):

[tex]\frac{apple}{total} =\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

[tex]\frac{orange}{total} =\frac{3}{10}[/tex]

in order to add/subtract fractions, we have to ensure that the denominators are the same, we can see that for the denominators listed above, the least common multiple for 4 and 10 = 20, hence we can re-write the above as :

[tex]\frac{apple}{total} =\frac{1}{4} =\frac{5}{20}[/tex]

[tex]\frac{orange}{total} =\frac{3}{10} =\frac{6}{20} [/tex]

Hence,

Fraction of cranberry juice of the total is,

1 - [tex]\frac{5}{20}[/tex] - [tex]\frac{6}{20}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{20}{20}[/tex] - [tex]\frac{5}{20}[/tex] - [tex]\frac{6}{20}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{9}{20}[/tex]

Because all the denominators are the same, we can assemble the ratios of each component by taking the ratios of the numerators

cranberry : apple : orange

= ratios of their numerators

= 9 : 5 : 6