SOLUTION: If the ratio of Snickers Bars: Bounty Bars to the ratio of Cherry Ripes: Mars Bars if 17 : 12, and there are 34 Snickers bars, 15 Bounty Bars and 40 Cherry Ripes, ho many Mars Bars

Question 877050: If the ratio of Snickers Bars: Bounty Bars to the ratio of Cherry Ripes: Mars Bars if 17 : 12, and there are 34 Snickers bars, 15 Bounty Bars and 40 Cherry Ripes, ho many Mars Bars are there?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
w, x, y, z are the quantities Snickers, Bounty, Cherry Ripes, Mars.

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w=34, x=15, y=40, z=unknown.

Use the complicated ratio equation to solve for z.

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Now just substitute the given values and compute z.
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