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KWilfred

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A cook has a recipe for a pasta sauce that calls for 3/4 cup of chopped onions. One recipe makes enough for six servings. Compute the volume of chopped onions that would be required for fifteen servings. (Hint: That means the cook must prepare 15/6 = 2 1/2 recipes.)

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A small vegetable garden is 7 1/2 feet by 7 1/5 feet. If there are 8 square feet in 1 square yard, compute the number of square yards that are in the vegetable garden.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

3/4  2 1/2 = 3/4  5/2 = 15/8 = 1 7/8 cups

Answer to Question 2

7 1/2  7 1/5 = 15/2  36/2 = 54 square feet;
54 8 = 6 3/4 square yards


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Reply #2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Correct answers!


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