Jasmine needs to make a bouquet of 24 yellow and orange carnations. The ratio of yellow carnations to all of the carnations must be 1 to 3. She determines that she will need 8 orange carnations for the bouquet. Which statement correctly describes her error?
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yellow/24=1/3, so 8/24=1/3 (=8*1/8*3) so there are 8 yellows and that means there are 24-8=16 orange. She mixed up orange and yellow and thought the ratio of orange to all was 1/3, when it was 2/3. Answer 1.

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