A restaurant offers diet soda and regular soda. In one day they sold 14 diet sodas. If the ratio of diet sodas sold to regular sodas sold was 7 : 6, how many sodas were sold total?

Respuesta :

Answer: 26 sodas.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "x" the number of regular sodas that were sold in that day.

You know that the the ratio of diet sodas sold to regular sodas sold was:

[tex]7 : 6[/tex]

This ratio can also be written as a fraction:

[tex]\frac{7}{6}[/tex]

Knowing that in that day they sold 14 diet sodas, you can write the following proportion:

[tex]\frac{7}{6}=\frac{14}{x}[/tex]

Now solve for "x":

[tex](x)(\frac{7}{6})=14\\\\x=(14)(\frac{6}{7})\\\\x=12[/tex]

Then  the total number of sodas sold that day is:

[tex]Total=14\ sodas+12\ sodas=26\ sodas[/tex]