SOLUTION: Ashley is making punch for a party. The recipe requires twice as much orange juice as cranberry juice and 8 times as much ginger ale as cranberry juice. If she plans to make 176 on

Question 369490: Ashley is making punch for a party. The recipe requires twice as much orange juice as cranberry juice and 8 times as much ginger ale as cranberry juice. If she plans to make 176 onces of punch, how much of each ingredient should she use.
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Ashley is making punch for a party. The recipe requires twice as much orange juice as cranberry juice and 8 times as much ginger ale as cranberry juice. If she plans to make 176 onces of punch, how much of each ingredient should she use.
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Let x = onces of cranberry juice
then
2x = onces of orange juice
8x = onces of ginger ale
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x + 2x + 8x = 176
11x = 176
x = 176/11
x = 16 onces (cranberry juice)
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Orange juice:
2x = 2(16) = 32 ounces
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Ginger ale:
8x = 8(16) = 128 ounces
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