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Ratio: The gas/oil ratio of a certain chainsaw is 25 to 1. How much oil ( in gallons) should be mixed with 2 gallons of gasoline. How to use the formula.
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Ratio: The gas/oil ratio of a certain chainsaw is 25 to 1. How much oil ( in gallons) should be mixed with 2 gallons of gasoline. How to use the formula.
The ratio 25 to 1 simply means that for every 25 parts of gasoline, there is 1 part of oil
The question requires us to find the amount of oil in gallons to be mixed with 2 gallons of oil.
Solution
25 gallons of gas= 1 gallon of oil
2 gallons of gas= ?
To get the gallons of oil, we do cross multiplication.
Hence we will have: (2*1)/25
=0.08 gallons of Oil
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