you baked 42 chocolate cupcakes and 28 red velvet cupcakes.you package them in boxes that have the same ratio of chocolate to red velvet cupcakes as the total cupcakes. how many red velvet cupcakes are in a box thar has 24 chocolate cupcakes?
Red velvet : Chocolate Cupcakes 28:42 can be reduced to 2:3 as both share 14 as a factor. x : 24 24/3 = 8 8 x 2 = 16 16 red velvets are in a box with 24 chocolate
