Nate buys 36 bottles of water for a soccer practice. The ratio of water bottles to people is 3 to 1. Which proportion can be used to find

Question

Nate buys 36 bottles of water for a soccer practice. The ratio of water bottles to people is 3 to 1.

Which proportion can be used to find the number of people at the soccer practice?

Answer 1

bottles of water/number of people:

Let x = the number of people

36/x = 3/1

3x = 36

x = 12 people