Explain simply why 32 is the correct answer to: At the salad bar, Grandma put three mushrooms on her salad. She also added twice as many cherry tomatoes as mushrooms, 4 times as many pickles as cherry tomatoes, and 4 times as many bacon bits as pickles. If one third of the bacon bits were red, than how many red bacon bits did Grandma put on her salad?. Explanation:
Twice as many tomatoes as mushrooms is 3 * 2 = 6 tomatoes. Four times as many pickles as tomatoes is 4 * 6 = 24 pickles. Four times as many bacon bits as pickles is 24 * 4 = 96 bacon bits. One third of 96 is 96 / 3 = 32 red bacon bits.