Juanita pours 2 liters of cranberry juice and 3.5 liters of apple juice into a punch bowl. how many hectoliters of juice are in the punch bowl?

First, let's calculate how many liters of juice are in the punch bowl:

2 + 3.5 = 5.5

One hectoliter is equal to 100 liters.  Based on this knowledge, we can set up an equation like this:



It states that one hectoliter is 100 liters and that x hectoliters is 5.5 liters.  To solve, we can use cross-multiplication:




There are 0.055 hectoliters in the punchbowl.