Me gherards bistro has a 5: 8 ratio of lunch customers to dinner customers. it averages 40 lunch customers. what is its average number of customers for dinner

To find the average number of customers for dinner, use the simple ratio of 5 lunch customers for every 8 dinner customers.

Because there are 40 lunch customers, this is eight groups of five lunch customers. This means you will need 8 groups of 8 dinner customers to make it equivalent.

8 x 8 = 64

There is an average of 64 customers for dinner.