Question

Carly is running the punch stand at her school fair. She was given 2 gallons of pineapple juice, 17 pints of watermelon juice, 9 cups of strawberry juice, 1 gallon of blueberry juice, and 1.5 gallons of mango juice. A cup of punch is 8 fluid ounces. The punch recipe calls for a half gallon of each juice mixed together. How many cups of punch can Carly make with the materials given?

Answer 1

16 cups = 1 gallon, 2 cups = 1 pint
0.5 gallon = 8 cups

pineapple = 32 cups.
watermelon = 34 cups.
strawberry = 9 cups.
blueberry = 16 cups.
mango = 24 cups.

p = 32/8 = 4 half gal
w = 34/8 = 4 half gal
s = 9/8 = 1 half gal
b = 16/8 = 2 half gal
m = 24/8 = 3 half gal
1 batch is all she could make, so...

8 (cups in half gal) × 5 (# of juices) = 40 cups