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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
w, x, y, z are the quantities Snickers, Bounty, Cherry Ripes, Mars.

%28w%2Fx%29%2F%28y%2Fz%29=17%2F12;
w=34, x=15, y=40, z=unknown.

Use the complicated ratio equation to solve for z.
%28w%2Fx%29%28z%2Fy%29=17%2F12
%28wz%29%2F%28xy%29=17%2F12
highlight_green%28z=%2817%2F12%29%28xy%29%2Fw=highlight_green%28%2817xy%29%2F%2812w%29%29%29.

Now just substitute the given values and compute z.