Jen is making dipping sauce for her book club meeting she uses 3 tablespoons of ketchup for every 1 tbsp of hot sauce how many tablespoons of ketchup and hot sauce does Jen need if she is making a total of 36 tablespoons of dipping sauce

9 tablespoons of hot sauce

27 tablespoons of ketchup

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that Jen uses 3x as many tablespoons of ketchup as to hot sauce. We know she is making 36 tablespoons dipping sauce total.

SO, we make the equation x + 3x = 36

we group like terms and have 4x = 36

we need to divide both side by 4 and get 9

this means that we use a total of 9 tablespoons of hot sauce and 27 tablespoons of ketchup.

25.2

step-by-step explanation:

2+4x6-8/10= 25.2